Gijt Jartwa' &Uiatur,
Tsm Auuuvat PcBLismsa Ca
Our.UU ud M tu Unooi.
THoareos Fibtlb, PorRirro.
la Ui beauty of the lillice
Christ was born across the sea.
With a giory In his bosom
That transfigures 70a and me.
As he strove to make men holy
Let ni strive to make them free.
Sine God is marching on."
Jnti Ward Host.
"Laorel crowns cleave to deserts,
And power to him who power exerts.'
"A ruddy drop of manly blood
The (urging tea outweigh."
Xmono.
"H who cannot reason Is a fool.
Ha who will not reason is a coward.
Be who dare not reason Is a elave."
N. R. P. A.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
MMrm all budaaat eMnannloaaons to
jpubln to Editor
'ESS.tXTo bota S14.S ef U-P-P
, . b uHd. Terr long oommnntcaUons,
MtroUi ouDoi b uW.
A bomb explosion in Paris la believed
to bathe work of anarchists.
JostPB Cook says, "No sex, no
shirks, no simpletons in suffrage." He
and MU.I WiUard agree in favoring the
reading teat and compulsory voting.
Senator Mar person has introduced
a bill in congress for a government
survey of the shlfiicg Eand islands of the
Platte river. Money would be thus
wasted measuring valueless wastes.
1m Belgium women and children In
great numbers work in the coal mines,
employers preferring them, because of
their docility, to men. The women re
ceive only thirty eents for twelve hours
work.
At Dortmund, Prussia, 8,000 men em
ployed in the Iron works were thrown
out of work last week, and others have
been notified that their services will be
dispensed with soon. Great suffering
prevails. '
Congressman UorKiMS of Illinois is
about to Introduce a postal telegraph
bUl, Us same substantially that was
made in conf 01 mlty with the recommen
dations of the postmaster-general, but
with some modifications.
The walkout of the 400,000 English
coal miners, will almost Immediately
cause some factories to shut down for
lack of fuel. A coal famine is feared,
but this wonld force the mtne owners
to make terms with their men. '
Tub Btt of Sunday has a very sensi
ble editorial criticising the present cost
ly congressional funerals. We are
with It la demanding reform In the
present senseless custom which wastes
Urge amounts of the people's money
and their representatives time.
Iowa Is struggling with the question
of prohibition this week. The nation
alisation of the liquor business, eliminat
ing the element of profit, is the best way
to deal with It until the people are
freed from prejudice and better educat
ed on the subject.
Dr. Miller throws Cleveland over
board for Hill, and In the same para
graph in the World-Herald says, "I am
opposed to this free silver lunacy."
Hill Is to be presented at Chicago by a
solid New York anti-free silver delega
lion, out lie talks in the south and is
held np to the west as the champion of
"financial reform."
Ignorance on the part of the people
and oppression on the part of the weal
thy, aristocratic and ruling classes of
Spain Is naturally and Inevitably leading
to anarchy. The anarchists propagan
da at Valladolid Is made public. The
greater intelligence of the masses here
la all that stands between us and siiui
lar approaching ruin. .
Up to the beginning of the second
week In March over 19,000,000 of gold.
our measure of values and basis of bust
neas, had been drawn to Europe to pay
debts which our excess of exports over
imports could not liquidate. Over
third of this sum went the last week
in February, with Indications that the
big stream would Continue;
The city council of Memphis. Ten
nessee, "Resolved that the freedom of
the city be extended to him David B.
Hill, and that we assure him that we
would consider it an honor to have an
opportunity to express to him our ap
preciation of him as a man, an Ameri
can, above all. a typical democrat." A
man, ac American, a typical democrat
From all such characters (or Memphis
liars) good Lord deliver us!
Thi New York Sun of March 9th do
votes a column and a half of solid min
ion to an illustrated write up of the
"Special Patrol, " an armed and uni
formed guard privately hired to protect
millionaires. There are in the regular
watch sixty-five men prepared to shoot
down any one they suspect who insists
on not being deprived of bis liberty. It
is an armed power within and above
the so-called people's government'''
Twenty six hundred unemployed
men at Leipsic, Germany, held a meet
ing March 10 to debate what they could
do. Delegate', were finally sent by them
to the municipal authorities asking that
public works bo started to afford work
and relief. At Cologn the unemployed
marched in procession to the burgomas
ter who addressed them and said the
authorities were doing all in their
power to alleviate the great distress
and hoped means would soon be
reached to accomplish this end. - He
provided work at once for the men with
families.
the ooltei imios or pluto-
CRACY.
Mr. K. O. Leech, director of the U.
8. Mint has an article la the current
number of the forum In which he tries
to answer the question, "Would Free
Coinage Bring European Silver here?"
It is as weak aa argument (if in cour
tesy we must call It aa argument) as we
have overseen la print, but some of bU
admissions aad statements are worth
considering. He admits that silver on
and after being demonetized depre
ciated In value over thirty per cer t. Bo
did all other labor products and wages.
That which gold paper, and silver had
previously represented had to be
measured by gold only, and so esch gold
dollar having more exchanges to make,
and the entire amonnt of gold money
having to represent a much greater and
relatively increasing, or more rapidly
increasing, amount of property, each
gold dollar must come to cover and
stand for more and mere. Prices of
everything measured by gold must de
crease if gold money in comparison
with all it stands for grows relatively
less. And In this country we are loaing
by yearly wear of coin, shipment abroad
to pay Interest on foreign capital, and
increasing use of gold in the arts, more
of the yellow metsl than our mines are
producing, while at the aame time-our
property in the aggregate is rapidly in
creasing. These ate Important facts
to remember when reading the argu
ments of gold "financiers."
Mr. Leech Is unable to give any evi
dence that free coinage would bring
European silver here, but sajs, as If
that ought to settle it, that all the emi
nent ecouomii-t of Europe "who have
given attention to monetary questions,"
are of his opinion, that it would. They
have reason for saying this, if they do
say it, but not for believing it. They
belong to a man to the money, creditor
lncome-gotting class, and are anxious
to keep goods and labor low and money
high. They are of the class who tent
Ernest Seyd over here to fasten chains
of debt and usury slavery upon the
producing classes.
But consider auother fact given by
Mr. Leech. The entire amount of
European silver which the gold bug
financiers are so afraid of, consists of
coins reserved to redeem paper notes
and coins in circulation, altogether
amounting to only 11,530,000,000, S3
dollars per capita of our population, ' if
it were all sent to us to be coined and
exchanged for gold without loss or cost
to Europeans. But this money Is only
a small fraction of It In the hands of
European government, about one
fourth of it. It is money remember, and
worth for all purpose of exchange about
80 por cent more there than the bullion
value. The banks could not get hold of
it for less than its face, government-
stamped, debt-paying value. If then it
were taken la to be shipped here it
would have to be bought of private
parties at Its money, stamped value,
equalling gold; then the shipper would
lose upon reoolnlng at full weight all
light weight, old cola, friction losses;
the cost of shipment and the Interest
and Insurance would be another ex
pense; and if they were suoh fool
"financiers" as to stand all these! Items
of loss, with a possible ' gain to start
with la sight, whea they got their Euro
pean silver oolned here it would not be
European, but American money, and
they would have Instead of European
sliver money American silver money.
bought man gold, dollar for dollar, on
their hands. So it is evident that the
long-eared "financiers" of America and
Europe have another reason for trying
to frighten the free silver men with
their braying. Gold is their money
god because it has the least volume,
The bankers, bond holders, capitalists,
r.nd entire creditor class, have hitherto
been the controlling class in every na
tion almost. Gold and gold basis mo
ney is hotter for them (and the contrac
tion that loads to it,) because it has
greater usury and purchasing power.
The "financiers," accursed, figured this
out in the 00's and 70's, and this ex
plains why nation alter nation was
through popular ignorance and legist
tlve bribery led to demonetize silver
The result has been to bankrupt the
people of Europe and America, our own
country suffering less because of greater
undeveloped resources. See in other
articles In this Issue reports of the con
ditloaof the working classoa of Europe
Mr. Leech shows without meaning to
do It the hypocrisy of the talk and pre
tended effort on the part of gold men to
secure an international bl metallic con
ference, by this statement.
' Gold mono-metalism is the goal to
which European countries are tending
The aim of all Europe is to have a mo
notary system in wnlch silver shall
serve only as divisional coin. This
tendency toward the gold standard has
not been entirely from choice, but
largely from necessity, growing out of
the fact that by natural selection gold
has become the measure of value in the
commercial world."
Natural selection t Faugh t The seleo
tion of long headed abominably selfish
men who saw in the demonetizing of
the more abundant metal, and the rela-
lively ever-contracting volume of gold,
a cnance to reduce the millions to per
petual slavery, a chance to make others
heap up fortunes for them and establish
themselves and their children after
them forever upon thrones of steadily
increasing magnificence and power.
But bo it known unto you, O kings,
that we will not serve your gods nor
worship the golden image which ye have
set up,
REVIEW OP TRADE.
Bradstreets for tke week ending
March 10 reported as " encouraging
business news, that trade was starting
up at New Orleans, and that loans were
being made at the interior "with more
confidence." (The large cotton crop
raised last year doesn't bring enough te
pay the cost of raising it, and the peo
pie have become so poor and so heavily
mortgaged that new leans, enabling
them to move their crops, are scarcely
THE FAKMERS' ALLIANCE,
safe.) Veiecs "eaooaragmeat1(f)as
to be found la the newt trout Oalvtstoa,
Savannah er Baltimore.
'Tie relatively heaviest trade Is at
the west." (God pity the rest of the
country, then.) It has been iln
agricultural Implements, hardware and
spring it plea" the first named belog
sold by powerful manufacturing firms,
protected by patents, for prices very
greatly In excess of their cost, prices
which arc a heavy drain upon the farm
ers. Livestock and hogs fell 5 and 10c.
Wheat is lower-, 8,754,000 bushels were
shipped to Europe in the six days end
ing March 10th. Only 250.000 in gold
was shipped I 1 the same period. Shoes,
clothing and groceries continue firm
and la fair demand. (Tbey are the
things people must have if tbey have
anything, or any credit.)
Pig irou prices have been cat because
of large stocks, and general stagnation.
At Philadelphia Iron Is demoralized,
and the price of wool lower. At Pitts
burg the volume of the iron trade Is
smaller and there Is further talk of clos
ing furnaces. The price of Iron has
fallen to IIS per ton, the lowest quota
tion on record. Rails ars Inactive, bar
Iron dull and plates weaker. Trade in
tin has been small, and lead is dull.
Textile Industries are improving.
Wheat Is 2 cents lower, corn J cent.
Oats and pork products unchanged.
Oil I cents higher, coffee cents lower.
Cotton durlngthe week dropped i bring
ing the price to 0.93 cents, the lowest
price In forty years.
The business failures for the week
number 251 against 247 last week, and
200 for the corresponding week last
year. Eighty-three per cent of the
firms falling this year report capital ' of
15,000 or less, and 95 per eent failing
Lad capital of less than S20,000. Com
panies and corporations with large
capital crowd those with less to the
wall and business Is being more and
more drawn Into the bands of big con
cerns which, with the field clear of
small rivals, come together or form
agreements to prevent competition.
PROF. ELY TOR THE PEOPLE.
The organization In the University of
Wisconsin of a tpeoial school for the
tudy of economies, history and politi
cal science, and the calling of Prof.
Richard T. Ely of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity to bo director of the new school,'
are events of great Importance and In
terest to the people. " ' , ,
Prof. Ely In his published works and
lectures has showa himself not a class
economist, not one who confuses the
the law or reign of selfishness with nat
ural law, believing it to be an inevita
ble, nnescapable order of commercial
activities. He sees the drift of such
teaching, and of present business self
ishness to be toward unendurable op
pression and anarchy. He has there
fore taught that it is necessary to take
all natural monepltes out of the hands
private parties and place' them,
through governmental ownership and
agents, In the hands of the people. He
advocates the manioipal ownership' of
gas and electrlo lighting works street
railways, water-works, eto.'api hs
owning and working of national
monopolies, the railroads, telegraphs,
telephones, etc., by the nation. He gives
his principal attention to the things
which can be first remedied, and is in
the ranks of economlo teachers and
writers the ablest defender and advo
cate of the principal demands of the
people made at the St. Louis confer
ance of the organized industrial classes.
He is called by the editor of the Review
of Reviews, "a courageous leader of
American public opinion In matters of
economics and applied ethics." lie has
written a history of the labor move
ment In America, a toxt-book of politi
cal economy, a volume en taxation in
American states and cities, an exceed
ingly interesting work on French and
Germau socialism, several popular
works on economic and social problems.
and some special monagraphs upon the
theory and history of political economy
as a science.
The University speohl school will be
devoted to elementary and general in
struction in economics, history and
political science, and will also carry
post-graduate courses and confer the de
gree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Prof. Crookis in the fortnightly Re
view lor February writes on what he
considers "Some Possibilities of Elec
tricity." He maintains that we have
every reason to believe we shall be able
in a short time to telegraph without
wires in any direction and have electric
lights without connecting the lamp to
any current. He thinks we shall be
able to destroy fungi and parasitical
insects, which so greatly injure crops,
by some application of electricity; and
that the weather may yet be controlled
by it so as to have the rain all fall at
night, givingus by this coutrol sunshine
every day; and further, that when it
rains we can make It pour, doing away
with all drizzles, fogs, and germs
of the water supply.
Labor day this year Is looked for
ward to wiht great apprehension by the
tottering governments and "holders of
securities," by the hereditary and mon
ey kings of Europe. The Portugal
government is in imminent danger of
downfall; there is a .financial crisis in
Greece; in Italy 'the consumption of
food by the poor has been so greatly re
duced as to show lamentably and
alarmingly in the published statistics of
food consumption, the avenge reduc
tion In food consumption for all, made
by the starting poor, ranging from 4 to 21
per cent Spain Is resting over a vol
cano of suffering discontent. And Rus
sia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary
are making beat which cannot long be
contained in thoir lower strata.
The World-Herald is corralling the
democrats of Nebraska and -trying to
hold them, with Cleveland knocked
out, for Boles.
LINCOLN, NEH.t 1UUKHDAY. MAR 17, 1992.
PRICES riLLIia AID MISERY
liana.
Prices still fall and they carry prolts
with them; but it is aatudactory to se
lect that this is to-day the only country
ia the world whose exchanges are
larger than a year ago. All Europe Is
face to face with such panic, depression,
bankruptcy, riot and incipient revolu
tion as has not been seen since the
financial collapse ia 1841-6 was succeed
ed by the revolution of 1844. Philadel
phia (Rep ) Press.
It mav be "satisfactory" to the upper
and middle financial classes to compare
their condition witii the less prosperous
and more endangered corresponding
classes ia Europe; but how about the
poor, poorer and poorest classes here
and there? When a man is in debt and
the sheriff Is going to sell bis home,
furniture, or farm, it doesn't seem to
satisfy him to be told that others are
worse off. When a man is out of work
and his family starving it doesn't ease
him any to assure him that multitudes
died of hunger years ag.'v
According to the Engineering Xewt
railway construction has fallen off 40
per cent from last year, and that was a
pocr year. Consider what this means
to the miners and iron and steel wage
workers. It means in the one item of
rails alone a reduction of 2,010,030 tons
less to be made this year, and for those
who made them and mined the ore, no
work.
Boots and aboes fail to be called for
because the people are too poor to buy,
and so the wage-workers in that Indus
try are being thrown out of work.
Shipments of boots and shoes from Bos
ton tor January and February are
smaller than in any of the. five previous
years.
Aud these are but samples of the
other industries. ' "Prices still fall," the
markets are full of goods while the peo
ple have nothing to buy with, and the
depression, stoppage of work, and
weight of the classes above them la
crushing the hope and life out of the
multitudes of poor beneath.
It is all caused by injustice. The pro
ducers do not have what they prodnco,
or are not paid just wages and tqulta
ble prices, and so have not enough
money to empty the market after filling
it, the result being periodical gluts and
stagnation, accompanied with in
describable suffering of the unemployed
and the debtor classes. All the suffer
ing; of the periodical crises ot social in
justice fall upon the poor, and the
classes pressing down upon them are
In danger of destruction whenever their
misery at such times becomes unendur
able, or whea the oppressed classes un
derstand what are their rights and
wrongs.
"who lie8? as ihtere00a
' ;- : tioi,"
Such Is tie title of a book which hon
est; disoVimlnatlhg, truth-loving people
may well read and ponder over. It
contalaj ten scenes, the design being to
locus light apoa real life la such a way
as to bring all social shams, deceptions,
and business hypocrisies to light. The
eurtala rises first upoa a Bostoa ban
quet, -the tenth reanlen of the "Model
Nine," maa of the same olass aad grad
uafces bf Harvard. They ; -are 1 a
phyalciaa, merchant, banker, professor,
lawyer, politician, editor, preacher, and
a traveler who ha devoted tea years to
a study af the world. The last Earned
startles his companions, whs have
adopted the ways of the world, by his
keen sweeping criticisms of the boasted
culture and civilization ot this foremost
land. He declared civilisation a hum
bug and culture a fraud, both being
based upon lies and nothing but lies;
that ' the man of to-day lies contin
ually from the moment he rises to the
time he retires, if not intentionally,
then from force of circumstances or
habit;" that "it Is an utter impossibility
to get along if ho adheres strictly to the
truth," all social and business relations
being inoculated with poison.
The eight business men, Including the
lecturer and preacher, strongly dissent
ed from these views, and finally a one
thohsand dollar wager was laid with
each of them that he could not at the
end of a week report, upon his honor,
that he had continued bis business and
social rotations with the world and told
the truth and the whole truth during
the intervening period.
They separated and the week's history
of each is given. Their experiences are
both pa nfully Interesting and amusing
to the conscientious reader. The doctor
loses one patient after another by tolling
Impalatable truth to one, confessing his
ignorance to another, assuring another
it is rest only that he needs. Another
rich and Influential, wants him to say
she is sick when she is not, and she goes
off angered (aud prepared to injure
him) by his refusal to lend his con
science to her. Ho is next, in strict hon
esty, compelled to confess to his fiancee
the sins of his youth, with heart-break
ing results, and the first day of absolute
sincerity, truth-telling and uncovering,
woefully ends.
The Merchant has an equally stormy
time answering his wife's questions, and
loses customers right and lelt, people of
influence whom he has previously lied
to just as merchants do.
The banker refuses to negotiate for a
large lot of farm mortgages because the
interest, though legal, is unjust. He
also rejeets the offer, through nominal
purcnase, 01 o,uou snares 01 mining
stock, a new issue of "water," declar
ing it to be a fraud. He next refused
to enter a syndicate which was being
formed to buy up the plants of a certain
business, so as to destroy competition
and through the trust control the
supply and prices' of certain kinds of
goods. He would have made a safe
twenty per cent on his investment, but
he refused, and made a lot of very pow
erful, influential enemies by informing
his financial friends that "honesty
means more than paying what you owe
and keeping within tho pale of the
law." it was all, as he showed thetu, to
come out of unrequited labor, and la
the end meant extortioa practiced oa
the poor.
The lawyer well we anat ae4 to
give all story. Everybody knows that
the lawyers live ay lying. The story of
this one and his refusal to defend crimi
nals and do the duty work of rascals,
acd bis defense of a maa who had been
socially submerged and forced Into il
legal thefts by the pressure of the legal
ized robberies oa the part of the classes
above him, are amazingly Interesting
readiag.
The politician tried to be noneat.
You know the result if you know any
thing about the two old parties.
The editor we could sympathize
deeply with him.
The preacher confessed a great deal
more in the matter of objective belief
than truth, as we see it, demands. In
fact, if his confessions concerning teve
lation and conditional future good
were in accord with the necessary
opinions ot every honest mind, It would
leave the moral sense unsupported by
faith in God's word and selfishness
would reign unchecked, with no possi
bility of enthroning love la Its place.
We therefore caution whoever reads
"Who Lies" to do his own answering. The
book Is, however, aa uncovering of
what is terrible to contemplate, and few
who read it will fail to be self-convicted
of harboring serpents ia their bosoms.
The fa' t of the matter is, absolute truth,
the whole truth, would make selfish
ness, or selfish gain at another's ex
pense, impossible. It would necessitate
the exchange, always, of things equal
for things equal, and so eaoa would
have to labor for all he might consume.
Ho who withholds the truth, does it to
cover his selfishness and injustice, 1
Arena Publishing- C.. Boston, Mass.
THE
PLUTOCRATS, GUARD AND
ARMY
The Near York millionaires, since the
late explosive Incident In Russell Sage's
office, have kept sixty-five watchman on
guard over their precious lives and
property. They are organized Into a
"Special Patrol," with a chosen leader
to act as roundsman, ana remain on
duty in Fifth Avenue and the neighbor
ing streets from 9 o'clock at night un
til 8 o'clock In the morning. John D
Rockefeller, the Standard Oil king has
had since early in January three watch
men to watch his residence during the
entire 24 hours In turns of 8 hours each.
Col. Elliott F. Shepard, son-in-law of
the elder Vanderbilt, John Jacob Astor,
Cornelius Vanderbilt and twenty-five
others, Including Sage, followed his
example.
This Special Patrol have adopted a
regulation uniform differing from that
of the public officer and the pay of these
rich men's defenders is fifty dollars a
mouthy They are' armed with night
sticks a'nd revolvers and are expected
to use their guns to ' shoot down sus
pected "cranks" at their discretion.
They constitute with the Pinkertoa hire
lings the regular army ef the rich, te
whom is' given power to kill the starving
dependent employes who are made des
perate by hunger, and all persons who j
are so unfortunate as te arouse their
suspicions in the vicinity of the palaces
of the millionaire robber kings. While
the New York ministers and a half a
score of laymen "with money enough
to buy a kingdom" were banqueting
recently at Jay Gould's, three special
policeman guarded the house.
At weddings, banquets, soirees, on
holidays, and whenever an unusual
number of people are likely to be on
Fifth Avenue, an extra number of pri
vately hired policeman In the pay of the
rich are put on the watch.
All thisgoei to show that this gov
ernment cannot protect its citizens, and
it is the robbed, enslaved, unprotected
poor, made desperate or crazy, who en
danger the lives of their oppressors.
The government instead of protecting
the weak allows them to be enslaved
and slaughtered at the pleasure of the
rich, then allows an army not Itsown to
Intrench Itself in the land and shoot
down its citizens! Sons of Americat de
fenders of Freedom and of deathless
Right! Awake! Awake! Awake!
NEBRASKA STATE FAIR.
Seo'y. Furnas of the state agricultural
society has issued bulletin No. 1, giving
date of our next state fair; with some
few facts as to premiums and attrac
lions, siu.uuu will be attributed in
premiums in the different departments
$5,000 in sxgar beet department, 12,000
for county collective exhibits. The fair
will be held at Lincoln, Sept 2d to "9th
and it Is not improper to state that it
will be a winner, as Nebraska fairs
always are.
John Entwistle, of Grafton, Neb
called on us one day last week on his
way to England where he will make his
home in future. Bro. Entwistle Is one
of our true alliance men and was co.
organizer In Fillmore county for two
years. He carries the principles of the
alliance with him aud will join the
ranks of reformers in England his tor
mer home. May success crow all his
efforts.
Henbt C. Casey, "the greatest
American economist," estimated that
tne enforced idleness caused by our
robber "financiers" (the gold basis
creditor gang) during the years between
and including 1873 and 1879, lost to us
not less than five billion dollar's aorlK of
wealth a year. Yes, but it was the
sweating, producing class which did
the losing, the starving and freezing of
that awful period. The "financier" cred
ltors joined the general wail, but while
mine and factory and shop were closod
they were quietly sucking the life blood
and crunching tho bones of the people,
and doubling their wealth by means of
the increased value of their bonds and
mortgages.
Tub editor of the Clay county Regis
ttr 1 welcome to the us of our editor
ials, but ho will please aire ua credit for
the same hereafter.
COmtTIDED BY HI ROSmTOL
Senator Dolph cf Orrga spoke last
Friday oa the bill of Seaator S'-ssford,
to provide the govern mint with means
sufficient te sap ly the aalioaal want
of a sound circulating medium. As the
get has devoted two-thirds of a column
to the praise of Mr. Dolpb's speech, call
ing the discusaloa "timely." "whea
demagogues axe actively seeking to
tempt the farmers of the country away
from their allegiance to a sound and
table currency." our readers may like
to know how he succeeded ia proving
that the farmers have no real griev
ances, and that no other class of pro
ducers has any cause to complain.
The farmers are not fighting for them
selves aljne, but for all workers. The
rural and urban industrial classes have
united to secure justice from the land
transportation and money monopolists,
capitalists and usurers. Tradesmen
and laboreas ia the towns and cities
have as heavy burdens and as much
poverty and anxiety as (perhaps more
than) the farmers. We are not compar
ing one industrial class with another,
but the industrial classes with the stock
and bond holders, the classes who ob
tain wealth without labor by command
ing others labor.
Senator Dolph began as follows:
Mr. President, during a period of al
most unexampled prosperity, when our
granaries are full and the prices of our
agricultural products in the main are
good, when manufacturing Industries
are prosperous, and new industries,
stimulated by the protection afforded
them by our tariff laws, are being estab
lished, when the soil, the mines, and
the forests are yielding increased pro
ducts, when our laboring men are em
ployed and prospering, the democratic
party,. true to the policy wnieb nas con
trolled it for more than half a century,
proposes t? reverse the policy which
has produced such general prosperity
anu force tree traae upon the country.
We hardly see how any more deina-
goguery could be crowded Into a para
graph of equal length. But fortunately
it caa't be crammed down the people's
throats at present Free trade England
is better off than protective tariff Ger
many, and protective tariff America is
suffering less than free trade England.
Free trade and high tariffs are not the
causes of everything, as the two old
parties would have us believe; they do
not in fact cause anything, to such a
country as wa have, which can be
clearly, manifestly proven. The suffer
ing of '73 and onward, during the panic
years, was not the result of free trade,
for the republicans were in power.
Mr. Dolph went on to show that
prices for all kitds of goods has fallen
in the last decode. Yes, excepting
debts, city rents and the water added
to stocks. Bnt falling prices wring the
life out of the poorest classes whose
wages are being forced down lower and
lower. We can get cheap clothing, but
what of the sweating system by which
it is made? Cheapness of clothing and
other goods and dear money is what we
are complaining of.
Mr. Dolph, after a great waste of
words, and statistics which can be
turned with telling effect against hist
and his party, begged' the principal
questioa. the land-loan sab-treasury
plan, by taking it for granted that
money could not be made and perform
all functions of exchange, completing
the round of circulation, unless based
on gold or silver, all increase over its
volume being inflution. Of course if
this is insisted on at the start it ends the
discussion And so it has to end with
the insane gold worshipers.
The Oregon senator finally jumped
into the tariff fog, thrust "his fists
against the posts," and to the end in
sisted that he saw democratic "ghosts."
But before abandoning himself to a
fierce struggle with them he gave a final
complete answer to the question, "How
can the interests of the farmers be pro
moted?" H13 answer was: "I know of
no other way than that which has been
pursued by the republican party."
ONLY SPLITTING HAIRS.
Our remarks en "Men Who Pray and
Prey" last week may have seemed
severe to some of our readers, but Rev.
Di. Rainsford was, if anything, more
severe. In his pulpit the Sunday fol
lowing the banquet he expresses his
disgust with the action of those clergy
men who bent the knee to Jay Gould,
and in part said:
"When I hear of a body of christian
men calling for a meeting for the ex
tension of Christ's church in the house
of the one man who before the people
ot all tne86 u nited states has confessed
ly represented what is the very oppopite
of Christianity, a man who has done
more to degrade and debauch the
morals of business life than any other
citizen, wnen tnis nappens 1 say it is
time to speak as well as to pray." And
again, he said: .''It is to set up a mod
ern golden image, and to sav to it.
'Thou art my God." The results of such
worship are inevitable, They who
yield to it in time must come to be piti
less to man, untrue to themselves and
faithless to God."
Dr- Faxton retorted in much heat, ac
cording to report, as follows:
"You ask Rainsford where, the
wealthy men in his congregation got
their money and how the men in Wall
Street, who attend his church, came bv
their money. Did they get it any more
nonestiy tuan Air. uouid, or as honest
ly? Faugh! They can't any of them
hold up their heads and throw the
stone. Mr. Gould may be a continental
smasher. If he is, these men in the
Episcopal Church and In Dr. Rains
ford's church are peanut smashers be
side him."
The richest member ef Dr. Ralusford's
church is J. Pier pout Morgan, a Wall
Street banker of great wealth and, so
called, "genius for banking and finan
cial organization." It U stated that
nothing "dishonorable" bas ev r been
charged against Mr. Morgan; but the
question is raised whether the money
loaning business of banks and the pur
chase of stocks and bonds which draw a
steady stream of Interest and dividends
without labor, from the labor of
others the question is still to be an
swered, whether this is right.
The products of labor secured with
out labor, i unjust, Is immoral, Is rob-
bery la God's s'ght, ao matter how
much maa may legalise U and cover It
blackness aad kldeoasaess with aew
aames. , '
It U Urns for the church to speak out
oa the great questions of justice and
equity. It must condemn aad forma
oMirv u God does, and practice what it
preaches, and what it ought to preach,
the whole law of bod.
HFE0TEB WIfH WALL STREET
IDEAS.
The New York Voice, the national
organ of the prohibition party, is a very
widely circulated and influential paper.
It is edited by men who shape the
opinions and sway the understanding of
nine-tenths of the party prohibitionists
of tho country. But it Is infected with
Wall Street and selfish, creditor-class
financial doctrines. The following
criticism by the Voice of our St. Louis
platform proves that this is se:
The platform finally adopted con
tains in at least three respects declara
tions urhich are, to our mind, unwise,
and which, if put into legislation,
would prove very disastrous. These
are the declarations in' favor of the sub
treasury pln, the one in favor of free
ard unlimited coinage of sliver, and
the one in favor of government owner
ship and operation of railroads and
other lines of transportation.
The plan to loan money to the people
at cost on ample security it turns from
as "hardly worthy of argument."
As to bi metalism and free coinage of
silver it opposes the idea, and says,
"We believe .in gold as a measure of
value." Believing in gold as a measure
of value it must defend the injustice of
its relatively Increasing, steadily in
creasing value (30 per cent in 19 years),
with corresponding enforced deprecia
tion of wages and products. It must be
lieve in Bible usury and an increasing
power of its owners to draw interest
from the people, because the quantity
of gold us compared with the wealth it
measures grows relatively smaller.
The opposition af the Voice to the
governmental ownership and operation
of the railroads Is a surprise to us. But
opposing money at cost and transporta
tion at cost, and placing itself on the
narrowing gold basis with the inevitable
consequences, it cap scarcely Se said to
bo a friend of the people.
The bill of Congressman Bryan's
which passed last week, requiring prop
erty sold by order of U. S. courts to be
advertised in the local papers where the
property is owned, will benefit the land
owners and local press.
How does it happen that the war
against trusts (a sham battle) has begun
only since the national industrial con
ference met and organised a new popu
lar party at St Louis?
Charles Horton of the department
of justice at Washington has been in
vestigating the National Cordage Com
pany (trust) and finds it controls the en
tire output of sisal aad manilla, but he
twine by the trust,, aad thinks every
thing is so guarded there cannot be
found suffclent evideaoe to indict it
The trust controls machinery (under
patent) for twine maaufactare, and
without this snachiaery twine manufac
turers cannot compete with them.
A Mnxioir people are affected bv the
walk-out of England coal miners which
occurred the 12th iost Four hundred
thousand men have quit work. The
miners' plan is to reduce eoul stocks by
not working. Instead of allowing larire
supplies to reduce their wages. They
are well organized, but the drain upon
their treasury for so vast a nnmber will
be more than it can bear if the strike Is
of long continuance. Unless the miners
can bold out until there is a coal famine
and prices are forced to rise they will
only beneht the mine owners.
Rational Executive Committee People's
Party.
To the people:
The call issued by the joint committee
for a national convention to nominate
candidates for president and vice-president,
emanating from the great indus
trial conference, held in St Louis Feb.
22, and the national central committee
of the people's party, to be held In
Omaha, Neb., on the 4th day of July,
contains the following req uest:
1. When delegates are selected to the
national convention their names and
post office address should be forwarded
immediately to Robert Schilling, Mil
waukee, Wis., secretary of the national
committeo, so that ho will be able to
prepare a roll by states before the con
vention meets.
2. We caution the people to take great
care in selecting delegates to the con
gressional state and national conven
tions. Select no one unless he is known
to be true to our cause. Take mea who
have been tried and not found wanting.
We have already received word from
New York and Pennsylvania that the
old partiesjintend to pack our primaries,
select delegates to the state and nation
al conventions who are not In sympathy
with our cause, and who will go there
to bring confusion and name objection
able candidates. It is also very impor
tant that euch state should have a full
delegation at the national convention,
and for this purpose we urge that at all
meetings called to select delegates to
the national convention, and before
such delegates areselec.ed, a collection
be taken up to defray the expenses of
those who are unable to go on their own
account.
8. We again urge upon you the ne
cessity of pushing the work. To do this
money must be raised. Therefore we
kindly and earnestly ask all when meet
ing in primal capacity on March 20, to
ratify the work done by the great con
ference, that a collection be taken up to
promulgate our cause. Let the dona
tions from each individual be ever so
small, if each-one will assist a little It
will collectively amount to a great deal.
Forward all money to M. (J. Rankin,
lerra Haute, Ind , who will receipt for
same. W e also ask the reform press to
push the w.rk through the columns of
their papers as much as possible. It will
not do to stop cr flinch now. Wo must
not yield a single point or retreat an
Inch from the position we have taken.
Ibis is a tight for our country, our flag
and our homes, in which every producer
is equally, interested.
. U. E. Tadbehece, chairman,
Robert Sciulunq, secretary,
. Ma Rankin, treasurer, ...
National Executive Committee,
, ' People's Party.
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