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THE FAH31EKS' ALLIANCE, UNCOIL NER, THURSDAY, MAR. 24, 1892
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In the beauty of the liSiee
Christ mi born across the sea,
With a glory In his bosom
- ttlni. Ton and ma.
As ba itroTe to make men holy
Let as atrire to maka them free.
Sine God i inarching on."
Julia M'ardffoae.
"Laurel cleave to deserts, ;
And power to him who power exert.
"A ruddy drop of manly blood
The surging sea outweigh."
Emerson.
"Be who cannot reason Is a fool.
Ha who will not reason ia a coward,
Ba who dare not reason U a slave."
N. R. P. A.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
iumm all bulaM eemmnnloattonl to
AMmi mauar for pnbiloatloB to Bdltor
1.tXr both SIM of the paper
aanoi be wwd. Very Ion ommuntcaUon,
aaanila oanootbeu
The Detroit Tribune is being used by
Gen. Alger and aia friends to boom him
lor the presidency.
Mr. Ksifi government banking bill
has given him a national reputation of
the solid kind. Ue halfo extracted
fifty dollars worth of fun from Funston,
and now has the respect of all his fellow
members.
C N. Matberrt of Mayberry, Neb.,
has a line Hambletonlon colt which he
has named 0. M. Rem, for oar Alliance
congressman. The oocaeion of his
enthusiasm was the news of Mr. Kern's
fifty dollar lesson to the Kansas repub
lican member, Funston.
Mr. Burrows' Per Capita Delusion."
reply to the Century article, published in
pamphlet form, Is making a demand
for itself. See elsewhere a fine appre
ciative notice of it taken from thi
March Arena. Orders are coming in for
it from all over the country.
The paper advocating the single tax
as the remedy for all social and na
tional evils, The Standard, of Now York,
while itself opposing common prop
erty exoept in land, says: "The ques
tion of socialism or individualism will
be more and more distinctly the politics
of the future, as in the past it has
Vaguely been, and Nw South Wales
leads in the formation of parties on tl
line.
Mb. McKkiqhah is fully meeting the
high expectations of the Nebraska Inde
pendents who sent him to congress .He
tea sol id part of "the Alliance wedge"
which has done Immense service in
drawing universal attention to the Al
liance and people's party demands,
through the Congressional Record and
associated press dispatches. He has
heretofore taken but little part in de
bates, but has sprung into the arena this
week, in the free coinage fight, and ia
delivering heavy, effective blows.
Thi Omaha Tocsin comes to us under
-Its new management and gives every
Indication of making for Itself a perma
nent place among the newspapers of the
state. We are, through exchange of
papers, acquainted with Messrs. Allen
and Hudspeth, and have noted them as
being young writers of marked ability.
The rise of the peoples' party makes the
time also opportune to start a people's
j? aper iu Omaha, the first time it has
een possible for one to live, and we
wish for the Labor Wave's successor
abundant success. Let the warning
ring clear for righteousness.
The millionaires, landlords and
titled sovereigns trampling on the
equal, inalienable rights of men, are the
breeders of anarchy. Dynamite is its
weapon. And recently dynamite ex
plosions have taken place in Portugal,
Spain, France, Italy and Germany.
The ballot is our remedy for both evils,
for capitalistic or legalized oppression,
and its concomitant results. If the
remedy is applied in time, if the op-
' pressed people remain or can be made
sufficiently intelligent to vote together,
the body politic can be saved, liberty
can be restored.
Ir there is any one thing that makes
us tired all over it ia the fool talk of the
apologists for the present state of
things. When a great section of the
country reports millions of its workers
la distress after they have harvested a
plendid crop of the world's great
clothing staple, Instead of honestly ad
mitting that the people there and else
where have been robbed of the means
to buy with, so blocking trade and pre
venting exchanges and abundant sup
plies of everything for all, they have the
unmitigated gall to insist that the
cause of their poverty is too much
wealth in the hands of the poor, too
much cotton, corn, wheat, too much la
bor in factory, mine and shop t
Thk free coinage men in congress
won the first round in great shape
and by a vote of 190 to 84 set
apart three days for the consideration
of the Bland Bill. The independents
consider free coinage a comparatively
small matter, not a beginning hardly in
, financial reform, needed. It ia a
corollary, or helpful adjunct, of other
needed measures which, while they do
not in any way conflict, greatly overtop
it But small as it is it is big enough to
down and split open either decrepit old
party which tries to handle it. The
national republican party will not think
of touching it, and the democrats will
with equal ! ear refuse to deal with it as
a nartv Muim WM Rtranf mnA k
creditor class is the mountain that will
sureiy iau on tbem U they do not steer
Rlflar of it. A uinn Mmaa hawi
naee is prepared for all old parties who
rouse to iau aowa ana worsnip tne
gou goa. :;. ::
THE CAMPAIGI OF 1803.
. , , . . . .
The people's Independent
of la is before os, and we must with
wise counsels and waited ranks get
ready for a sweeping victory.
It is earnest work ahead of us. a work I
in which each independent, each private fl
as well as general, mast d his part1
When Wellington addressed his army
uu i'uo eve of the great battle which de
cided the destinies cf Europe, he said to
the soldiers, to each and all, "England
expects every man to do his duty," A
greater battle - is before us. a battle
which affects the destinies of the work
ing millions of the world, and all future
generations.
Shall the rich and privileged dictate
to us the prices of our products, the
amount of our wages, the cost of trans
portation and exchange, the percentage!
they shall take from us and the degree)
of or slavery to them Or shall we by!
united action at the polls secure our in
duitri&l freedom, cur equal, iitalien&blfl
rights?
By the law of the Eternal, we will!
sweat for ourselves alonel To the op
pressors we cryMake way for liberty!
tor the poor, protection and equal op-
portuaityl for all men, work and justicalJPent. We kave commenced early In
The thirst of our American despots
for gold and power, is unbounded,
and
"Like beasts of burden would they load as,
Liks gods, would bid their slaves adore,
But nan Is man and who la morer
"O Liberty! ean man retire thee.
Onoe havlnf felt thy generous name?
Caa dungeons, bolts and bars eonnne theef
Or whips thy noble spirit tame?
Or whips thy noble spirit tamef
To long the world has wept, bewailing,
That falsehood's dagger tyrants wield,
But freedom Is our sword and shield,
And all their arts are unavailing."
Truth and Justice are with us, and
within us is an undying love of liberty.
We are the sons of freemen, asd the
ballot it our weapon and defense. . We
cannot as a people remain "half slave
and half free." Then on with the fight.
Against us are arrayed enemies in
trenched in office, In law, in world-old
usage and wide-spread, popular igno
rance and misconception. They have
strong political organizations and a
subservient press possessing great
power to deceive. All the arts of un
principled political warfare are known
to them, and they have the banks, the
big corporations, the monopolists of
land and transportation, the capitalist
and creditor class behind them. This,
in general.
In Nebraska, however, we have fairly
beaten them onoe, and in spite of their
utmost preparation can with an over
whelming majority drive them from
office and power if we plan and work as
we may. From now until the Novem
ber election it is each man's duty to
divide what he knows with his neigh
bors. Give your facts and reasons to
everyone who will reoeive them. Place
our reform papers and books in the
hands of the uninformed, and so keep
the truth moving, circulating, spread
ing. We took the politicians by sur
prise before. They will be awake this
time, and calling out all their reserves
and engines of war, will figh', desperate
ly and wickedly. We cannot trust for
sucoess to a short, sharp campaign. We
must begn now to educate. Party
prejudice and influence are always
trnncrAi in nraaMAntlal nimnalirn
henoe the most effective work will be
dose early. ,
Our enemies have a double tight on
their hands. They must fight us, and
each other. It they fuse they will lose
the respect of all honest republicans
and democrats. And it we fuse with
either camp of our toes, we also will be
dispised. Fusion Is always proposed
by selfish, unprincipled office seekers,
who sneak into every party as soon as
they see in it any opportunity to be
lifted into office. Were we to fuse with
the republicans la any county or dis
trict the individual democrats would be
driven away from us, and were we to
fuse with the democrats the republicans
would with equal disgust be repelled.
Let him be anathematized and political-;
ly branded who proposes deals ami
fusions. We can beat both old parties
Into one, and do It easily, If we keep
our platform and ticket intact; but If
we tie up with the old rotten hulk and
candidates of either old party it will
drag us through the bottom of the sea.
Our platform, the perfect pedestal of
Liberty, the outline of right and Jus
tice, is already built for us. The pro
longed thunders of applause with which
n nuu jiiviuuuid who rcutjiveu at St.
Louis, are echoed and re-echoed by the
industrial classes the wide land over
Nothing which our enemies can build
It I ... VI- i i . r .
can be compared with it. But the next
thing of vital importance is the charac
ter of the candidates who are to stand
on it. They must be men above susp
icion, men who have and can hold the
confidence or all our people. They
must be the well nigh unanimous choice
of the convention. It will not do to
nominate a man concerning whose
character or qualifications the conven
tion is in doubt or strenuously divided
on. Office seekers inside our party by
building up factions and forming tie
ups with each other, can do us greatest
harm. But there is one way to test
their temper and composition. A true
man in a new party will never allow
himself to stand in the way of harmony
and party success. He will not allow
his name to stand in a convention if
strong opposition to his candidacy
develops and it becomes evident that
he cannot be chosen by the convention
by a unanimous, or very nearly unanl
mous, vote, a true man in such case
will regard a large respectable
minority, and through greater love for
the cause than for his private Interest
withdraw his name and work
heartily for the people s choice and the
'jCpl J-interest
I Ut M p)Me tnMe caadldatM on our
I ttate ticket whom we can best unite on,
j men who can draw the greatest number
of honest men to support them
PLEADS GUILTI.
The day after the meeting of the
Execative Committee of the Peoples'
Independent Party, held in this city, to
make arrangements and issue a call for
the state convention, Chairman Wolfe's
attention was called to theWding of
the State Journal's notice of the meeting.
It reads "Independent Coffin Makers."
Instead of ruffling Mr. Wolfe's good
nature he remarked that he thought it
very appropriate, and complimented
the Journal for coming nearer the
truth than nsnal.
Said he, That was jus', the size of it.
Continuing he said, we expect to have as
near a first class funeral this fall as the
former standing and respectability of
the corpse will allow. Our committee
has entered into a secret arrangement
with the Journal to divide the expense.
We have agreed to furnish tb" material
and make the coffin and the Journal is
to furnish the corpse and the mourners.
Yes, we have gone into the coffin
business. We are proud of our side of
the contract, and we believe the Journal
will be satisfied with the casket we shall
vruvr iu nave iub auaictisi wcu
zoned, so there will be no shrinkage to
enable the corpse to escape through the
cracks. The committee is aware how
small a hole the Journals party can go
through, while it is living, and every
precaution will be taken to leave no
way of escape when it is ooffined.
Mr. Wolfe also says he has confidence
that the Journal, as usual will do its
part to have the corpse ready, and that
there will be no postponement on ac
count of the weather or for want of a
suitable corpse. The only fear that he
has is, that the patient may refuse to
take the Journals medicine. It's sure
death if it does. A few more doses cf its
celebrated "Gold Cure," or "Railroad
Remedy," with occasional doses of Mc-
Kinleylsm, will secure the corpse in
good time for a November funeral.
Yes, you can say to the Dr. (I mean
the Journal) to run its suicidal machine
to Its full capacity, the coffin will be
ready.
GIVE IT TO BUC
We notice that Ex-Lieutenant Gov
ernor Melklejohn has declared himself a
candidate for congress in his district,
subject, of course, to the republican
nominating convention.
We say, give it to him, by all means.
We think a good dear of this young
man, and it will do him good. He has
possibilities in him, but he will never
know what the people of his district
think of his acts, during the memorable
session of the last legislature, until he
asks them for an endorsement. Yes,
by all means nominate him for congress.
It may make a man of him, but not a
congress man. It may not add to his
already large stock of beauty,' but it
will wonderfully increase his stock of
knowledge. He will find his whole
district turned into a kindergarten for
his benefit. '. Every tree in it will be
come a tree of knowledge and every
branch will be bending beneath its load
of richest fruit. Even if he were not
half as smart as he is, he would learn a
great deal, but, - with his natural
shrewdness, he may be able to graduate
In a very short time, not with the
degree of M. C. however. He has too
much to learn for that. He must learn
not to use a public office to thwart the
people's will. He must learn that a
public office-holder is only a public
servant. He must learn that the people
have rights that even a lieutenant
governor should respect. Ho, must
learn that the ends of justice must be
served though party interest should
suffer. In short he must, and will
learn, if he is nominated, that it is not
conducive to political health to monkey
with the rights of a free people. Yes,
give us Micklejohn, or give us
somebody else, we are not particular. .
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE t
MEETING.
The Executive Committee of the Peo
ples' Independent Party held a meeting
last Wednesday evening at the Llndell
hotel in this city. The committee were
all present except C. C. Beal of Broken
Bow. Besides the committee a number
of leading independents of the state
were present and assisted the committee
very much by their words of advice and
counsel. The meeting was very bar-,
monious and even enthusiastic. The
main object of the meeting was to
arrange for the convention to select
delegates to the national convention.
The question of whether it was best to
hold two separate conventions, one to
select delegates to the national conven
tion, and the other to nominate a state
ticket was fully and freely discussed.
There seemed to be some difference
of opinion at first. The main argument
against two conventions, however, was
the extra expense. But after full dis
cussion the committee retired and
unanimously agreed that it was best to
hold two conventions, as the last of
June seemed to It to be toe early to
nominate a stats ticket. In order to
save expense it was thought best to
hold the first convention on the eve of
the national convention, so that the
delegates conld attend the Omaha con
vention before they returned home,
The call will be found in another
column of this issue. The convention
to elect delegates to the national con
vention will be at Lincoln, June 30,
commencing at 10 a. M. The one to
nominate a state ticket will be held at
Kearney, August 3d, commencing at 8
r. m. The full proceedings and
recommendations will be found in the
call. We hope to see a full set of
delegates at each convention,
BLAISE A PLAGIARIST.
Judge Broady of this city, through a
mutual friend has brought to our atten
tion a discovery of his which destroys
at once and forever that portion of the
fame of our present Secretary of State
which has attached itself to his name by
means of his (supposed) "great com
mercial policy of reciprocity." The
fame of it belongs to another secretary
of state who lived a hundred years ago.
The democrats with ore voice de
nounce reciprocity because, dont you
know, no good thing can come out of
the' republican party. Listen to their
swelling chorus:
We denounce the Blaine
reciprocity humbug .Yew York Demo
cratic Contention.
Vie denounce the one sided recipro
city proposed by the present adminis
tration. Mebrnska Stale Contention.
Reciprocity, which is but a petty
system of retaliation, is no remedy for
tne evil a quack nostrum copyrighted
and prescribed by the present republi
can administration, it aggravates
rather than cures the "ills we nave."
Representative Ellis, in last week's tariff
debate.
They tried to paw a force bill. They
did pass the two McKinley laws super
adding to the protected taxes of the
tariff of 1892, the reciprocity humbug,
and still higher protected
taxes Senator Hill, in last week s Jack
son speech.
This "typical democrat" and presi
dential aspirant, addressing the Missis-
slppians and the nation with them said:
"The ground upon which the democrats
of the state of New York have taken
their stand see above is the whole
democratic faith and traditions, not
some corner of it merely, net some
splinter of it merely, but the whole.
This is the ground upon which I would
see the democrats of the north, south,
east and west, both of tie regular
organization and ;he Farmers' Alliance
How sweet and assuming!, unite and
take their stasd in the approaching
contest. Other duties for another day.
ah! oh! - For, like the victory of
Jefferson, tnls union, this victory will
close a chapter of history, will doom to
final disintegration a degraded party."
A party found guilty of the "recipro
city humbug" and protection interfer
ence with trade, sins deserving
capital punishment from the hands of
the horrified democrats!
But now see in the questions below
how the republican party admires
reciprocity ! ! ! I
The republican party of Rhode Island
as represented here to-day, heartily en
dorses the great commercial policy of
reciprocity inaugurated by the secre
tary of state, the Hon. James G. Blaine.
Last Stats Convention.
We do commend and indorse that
policy of reciprocity by which the Cen
tral Southorn American Nations aud
Spanish Indies are being opened up to
our trade upon favorable terms, and oy
which all our peoplo shall receive in ex
change therefor a long line of products.
Last Nebraska Convention.
By treaties of reciprocity the admin
istration is opening the markets of the
foreign world to our surplns farm pro
ducts ana manufactures cy admitting
free of duty such articles as we do not
and cannot produce in adequate quan
tity and securing in exchange the ex
emption from duties of such articles as
it is profitable for farms and factories to
export. The joint operation of such
reciprocity and of the protective system
and the restoration of the American flag
to the ocean carrying trade promise to
develop our foreign oommerce on a
basis advantageous to all our industries.
Bast Colorado Convention.
We commend most heartily the
policy that has been inaugurated look
ing to reciprocal trade relations with
other people of the American Conti
nents, and the administrative efforts
now making for the enlargement of
foreign markets for American beef and
pork. Last loua Convention.
The unexampled success cf the policy
of reciprocity cannot be controverted.
We regard this policy as the natural
outcome and development of the
protective principle, securing by a wise
discrimination in the exchange of pro
ducts, the most profitable foreign com
merce, while increasing, without en
dangering, ttie prosperity of our domes
tic industries. The more extended ap
plication of this principle as opportun
ities and conditions warrant, with due
regard to our own industries, will be
welcomed by the republican party. In
other words free trade with all coun
tries whose surpluses differ, or in such
surpluses as differ, from ours.
Editor Farmers' Alliance Last
Massachusetts Contention.
By well-adjusted treaties of recipro
city, the administration Is opening the
markets of the world to our surplus
farm products and manufactures by
admitting, free of duty, such articles as
we do not and cannot produce in
adequate quantity and securing in ex
change the exemptions from duty of
such articles as it is profitable for our
farms and factories to export. Last
Xeu York Convention.
It is with especial gratification that
the republicans of this commonwealth
have observed the brilliant administra
tion of the state department by one of
Pennsylvania's . native sons, whose
superb diplomacy has electrified the
hearts . of all Americans, exacted from
foreign people a degree of respect and
admiration, for the United States flag
hitherW ultSqualed, and opened wide to
us in other lands commercial gates
heretofore barred. These magnlflcant
achievements justify the confidence
and furnish new occasion for us to re
affirm the loyalty and devotion of the
republicans of Pennsylvania for her
most distinguished son, the Hon. James
G. Blaine. Last Pennsylvania Conven
tion. "
The democratic party, without a dis
senting voice, denounces republican
reciprocity. The republican party witu
entire unanimity howls at, ceaselessly
fights, and to the people ever prays
sgainst democratic free trade. And,
all the while, the synonym of recipro
city Is untaxed exchange, or free trade!
(See Webster.) The republican party
'u 'especially gratified' that reciprocity
has "opened wide to us in other lands
commercial gates heretofore haired," is
pleased to have our commercial gates
opened to those countries, and 'will
welcome' "the more extended applica
tion of this principle" of reciprocity, or
free trade.
O tricks of politics! O idiotio parti
sans following sounds only!
But where did the republican party's
great leader, the statesman Blaine, ob
tain his protected reciprocity plan, his
"great commercial policy," which the
party owns and loves as its own off'
spring, and which all democratic con
ventions denounce, supposing it to be a
republican child t
He stole It bodily, doctrine, name and
all, from Thomas Jefferson, the father
and founder of the democratic party,
the man by whose name all democrats
swear. He took it, with iu Jeffersonian
clothes of covering and defense, from a
state paper sent to Congress Dec. 16,
1793, by Jefferson, then Secretary of
State, a paper . written, in answer to a
request from Congress on the "Commer.
cial Intercourse of the United States with
Foreign Nations." It contained Jeffer
son's idea of tariff; it was the first
American democratic tariff platform
written. See Jefferson's works 7th vol
ume, pages 636 to 651. Hamilton, Sec
retary of the Treasury at the same time,
was for taxing all goods brought to us.
Jeflerson was in favor of a protective
tariff against those nations which by a
tariff barred their gtes to us, and reci
procal y with those countries having sur
pluses differing from ours. It was this
difference of doctrine on the question of
the national tariff and commercial poli
cy which led Jefferson to resign, his
resignation taking effect only two weeks
after sending to Congress the official pa
per we have just referred to, and from
which we quote below. This difference
and division originated the democratic
and republican parties.
In this paper to congress on the tariff
Jefferson summed up the tariff restric
tions laid by other nations upon our
commerce and navigation and in answer
to the question, "In what way may
they be best removed, modified or
counteracted?" said, "First, by friendly
arrangements with the several nations
with whom these restrictions exist. Or,
second, by the separate acts of our own
legislatures for countervailing their ef
fects" that is, by defensive, retaliatory
tariffs. He reasoned concerning tLe
advantages of free, unrestricted ex.
changes of mutual surpluses with all
countries, a method which would enable
each country to economize its produc
tive energies by employing them in
those lines, few or many, for which it
had natural advantages, and showed
that thus the greatest mass and variety
of products with the given amount o
labor would be produced, and in conse
quence there would be for each indi
vidual the largest possible division and
variety of wealth. From Jefferson's
paper, with this introduction we
quote: . 4
"Would even a single nation begin
with the United States this system of
free commerce,' it would be advisable
to begin it with that nation; since it is
one by one only that it can be extended
to all. Where the circumstances of
either party render it expedient to levy
a revenue by w:iy of impost on com
merce, its freedom might be modified,
in that particular, by mutual and equiva
lent measures, preserving it in all oth
ers. "Some nations, not yet ripe for free
commerce in all its extent might be
willing to mollify its restrictions and
regulations for us, in proportion to the
advantages which an intercourse with
us might offer. Particularly they may
concur with us in reciprocating the du
ties to be levied on each side, or in com
pensating any excess of duty by equiva
lent advantages of another nature.
But should any nation, contrary to our
wishes, suppose it may better find its
advantage by continuing its system of
Exhibitions, duties and regulations, It
ehooves us to protect our citizens,
their commerce and navigation, by
counter prohibitions, duties and regula
tions, also."
The italics in the above and following
quotations are ours. The reader will
see in these clippings from Jefferson's
state paper the entire and exact origin
al of the protected-reciprocity doctrine
now credited to Blaine. Jefferson
continued his argument and from tho
succeeding page (648) we quote:
The following . principles, being
founded in reciprocity appear perfectly
ubi, nun vuer no cause 01 complaint
o any nation i
When a nation imposes h!ch duties
on our productions, or prohibits them
altogether, it may be proper for us to
do the same by theirs; first burdening
or excluding those productions which
they bring here, in competition with
our own of the same kind; selecting
next, such manufactures as we take
from them in greatest quantity, and
which, at the same time, we could the
soonest furnish to ourselves, or obtain
from other countries; imposing on these
duties lighter at hrst, but heavier and
neavier afterwards as the channels of
supply open. Such duties having the
effect ol indirect encouragement to
domestic manufacturers ho come him
self into these States, where cheaper
subsistence, equal laws, and a vent for
his wares, free of duty, may insure him
the highest profits from his skill and in
dustry. The oppressions on
our agriculture, in foreiorn Dorts. would
thus be made the occasion of relieving
it from a dependence on the councils
and conduct of others, and of promot
ing arts, manufactures and population
at home.
Jefferson saw and stated that "We
must expect some Inconvenience in prac
tice from the establishment ef discrim
inating duties. But in this, as in so
many other cases, we are left," said he,
"to choose between two evils." The
inconviences are nothing when weighed
against the loss of wealth and loss of
force, which will follow our persever
ance in the plan of indiscrimination."
This "protected-reciprocity" national
policy of Jefferson's, given with com
mercial statistics and extended argu
ment in his- paper to congress, formed
"the culmination of the breach" be
tween himself and Hamilton, as Judge
Broady points out, a breach "that
caused the retirement of Mr. Jefferson
from Washington's Cabinet and the
formation of two political parties in
America, with Jefferson the head of
one and Hamilton the head of the
other."
The democratic party has forgotten
all Its great founder taught it, and has
learned nothing since. It hadnt sense
enough to keep in out of the wet, leav
ing its maker's staunch "Protected,
Progressive-Reciprocity" bottom for
Blaine to steal. He saw it forsaken,
siezed It painted it 'Republican Craft."
and his party, in danger of going down
on narrow "Protection" alone, made
haste to climb on to it. The democratic
party demonstrated its political degen
eration and idiocy by hastily training
all its guns against it. The party, long
since cut adrift from its original plat
form, is on record now as opposed to it,
and can never again make use of it.
But the Jefferson protected-reciprocity
vessel Is in bad hands. It is not loaded
with all possible good for our nation.
It opens our markets for a few things
and opens the gates of other nations for
some of our surplus. But it is in con
trol of tho9 who wiil not n it aoy
more than they are force! to for self
preservation. The republican party
makas the protection end of its tariff
doctrine and law the cover and defense
of injustice and robbery, prostituting a
power intended and necessary for
national defense, to the work of enrich
ing one class of our own people at the
expense cf another. Protection is of
value to us in the proportion that It de
fends, tecures and Increases recipro
city. Therefore, we propose that Protected
Progressive-Reciprocity be made a part of
our national platform at the conven
tion in Omaha. July 4. 1892.
SPOT 'EM
There is probably already enough
prejudice against book agents, tree
peddlers, and lightning rod venders,
and in fact against all people who can
vass from house to house with anything
to sell. While we are aware that such
employment is legitimate, and even re
spectable if properly conducted, yet
these same parties are often paid to
serve other interests and only use their
agency for a blind. We would there
fore, this early in the campaign, cau
tion our readers and voters against
strangers coming among yen as can
vassing ageats for anything whatever.
We shall be much mistaken if the
country is not flooded with them from
now on until the election. If you don't
know them set them down as frauds
and you will be on the safe side. They
will have a great variety in their line to
sell, but religious literature will be their
specialty. They have already begun
their work. They will soon be found
in every precinct and neighborhood.
They will be found to be very religious
when it suits, and patriotic at all times.
They will try to sell you a book or a
picture or something in their line, but
before they leave you they will find out
your politics, and that is the principal
object. To do this they will examine
yeur library, pick up your newspaper,
or scan the pictures on the wall. They
have come on purpose to find how you
stand, and how you are going to vote,
and what will most likely influence you
to vote as they would like, although
they will not express any very decided
opinion of their own. That is not their
business. They cane to learn your
opinion, not to express their own.
We say, spot all such. They are after
no good, and get well paid, whether
they sell you anything or not. Before
they leave they will have your name
and address, and they will know from
your talk just what kind of literature to
send you to poison your minds and get
you to vote your old party ticket.
Now some of you may think this is all
imagination, but mark what we say,
this is to be one of the methods of the
old parties in conducting the coming
campaign. "The woods is, going to be
full of 'em." Give them neither en
couragement nor support. They are
the paid emissaries of your worst ene
mies.
McBEIDE GALLED TO SALINE 00.
. B. McBride, county lecturer of
Lancaster county, has been invited to
address an open meeting at Berk's
school house. Saline county, April 9,
and at the close of the meeting will in
stall the Alliance officers at that place'
Daniel DeLeon, editor of The People
of New York and Louis F. Post editor
of The Standard recently held a joint
debate, the former advocating socialism
and the latter the single tax. In the
course of the debate, which on both
sides was scholarly and exceedingly
able, Mr. DeLeon made the statement
that "it was safe to say every adult
male who worked,, could, under a
proper systemenjoy an income equiv
alent ttf4hat of 110,000 a year to-day
with only four hours' work and a Satur
day full holiday." Of course this would
necessitate such a system of industrial
production and distribution as would
prevent waste and economize produc
tive energy by the most wise direction.
Steam, electricity, machinery, all the
working energies and aids which
nature and invention might utilize in
transforming the boundless resources of
the mineral, vegetable and animal king
doms into stores prepared for our in
dividual use and consumption, would
be employed, and whatever the average
might be for the individual the aggre
gate for all would be enormously in
creased. There is no doubt that such a
wise, just, scientific organization of the
workers, with all capital in their hands,
would be able to produce under equal
distribution what would be wealth for
each and all.
We this week present our readers
with a number of selections from the
pen of "M Quad," one of the most in
teresting writers of both humor and
pathos In this country. We hope to
make these sketches a permanent fea
ture of the paper, and would be pleased
to have you call the attention of your
friends to this new literary depart
ment. A kew machine lor picking cotton
has been perfected and patented which
will do away with hand picking. Seven
hundred and sixty thousand cotton
pickers will by it be displaced, and the
government while patenting the ma
chine provides nothing for the men and
women to do who are by its act of law
thrown out of work. If the government
takes away the work of its honest citizens
are wenot right in saying justice requires
that it provide for all those who are
thus deprived of work, and destitute,
other work!
B05D-E0LDEE3 AID BREAD
WTS5EES.
A unique production in reform litera
ture is the 63 page book entitled "Bond
Holders and Bread-Winners, a Portray
al of Some Political Crimes Committed
in she Name of Liberty," by S. S. King.
Esq., of the Kansas City bar. Its facts
and arguments are all taken from and
based on the statistics of the last cen
sus as found in the bulletins already
sent oat by Superintendent Porter; and
with each argument is a geographical
object lesson picturing truth which no
sophistry or preconceived opinions can
stand against
The object lessons begin on pages 10
and 11, where upon the left are outlined
North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mis
sissippi, Louriana, Indiana, Illinois,
Iowa and Nebraska; and upon the
right are placed the six New England
states with New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania added. The first named
produce everything that farm and
plantation yield. In the second groop
are found the great banking and money-loaning
interests, the railway owner
ship and manufacturing concerns. The
first group of states contains nearly
throe times the square miles of land
and about the same population. Its
gain in wealth from 1880 to 1890 was
539,441,977; while the gain of the east
ern group was 13,054,763,723 more
than five times as much. The gain of
wealth for the first group was 20 per
cent and its Increase in population 22
per cent, leaving the per capita wealth
(the sum total divided by the popula
tion) leu than it was in 1880. The in
crease in population in the eastern or
wealth group was 20 per cent and the
gain in wealth 40 per cent.
Next the same four western and five
southern states group are compared with
little Massachusetts.' In area it is 58 to
one, the population was 7 to one, and
the capital represented by assessed
value two to one. Yet, in the ten years
Massachusetts alone gained in wealth
ten million dollars more than all the nine
great, immensely productive states of the
western and southern groups.
Other diagrams follow and make the
truth so plain that any fifteen year old
boy can grasp and understand it.
Page 27 contains a diagram of unequal
distibrution, which talks to the eye and
mind with moving, lasting! unanswer
able eloquence. Page 86 diagrams the
draining process, showing how streams
of wealth are . drawn to Boston, New
York and Philadelphia, and the lumber
district.
We feel contsralned to urge everyone
who can to read and circulate this book.
If you can only buy one book buy this,
and place your own copy or other
copies in as many other hands as possi
ble. It will convert to the peoples'
party almost every man who reads it.
It costs but twenty-five cents and can.be
ordered of the Alliance Pub. Co., this
office.
ALL S0ELPTUHE IS PROFITABLE.
The New York Mail and Express keeps
a text of Scripture at the head of its
daily editorial columns, using 'the
livery of heaven' to secure credence for
Its. lies. Its editor. Col.. Shepard, is a
brother-in-law of "the people-be d id
Vanderbilt;" he is also a millionaire,' a
republican partiasn of the rankest sort,
and of course a goldbug. In the issue
of his paper which chronicled the free
silver vote at Washington this rich re
ligious partisan hit upon the following
for his text:
"And all King Solomon's drinking
vessels were of gold, and all the vessels
of the house of the forest of Lebanon
were of pure gold; none were of silver;
it was nothing accounted of in the
days of Solomon. '
The Colonel doubtless thought he was
very smart in his use of such a text at
that time, but in disconnecting it from
a record related to it he did as the devil
usually does when he quotes Scripture.
Solomon taxed everybody, his own,
people and tributary nations, drawing;
the wealth of many peoples and a vast
territory Into Jerusalem. The enrich
ment of the king and the incomparable
magnificence of his palaces and city,
was made possible only by the enforced
labor and impoverishment of millions,
of his subjects.
They were dazzled tor a time by his
glory and to the end of his life allowed
him to burden tbem. But when his son
stepped into his kingly shoes the people
assembled and insisted on being allow
ed to keep some of the silver and gold
themselves. They spoke out very
plainly after this fashion:
Thy father made our yoke grievous;
now therefore make thou the grievous
service of thy father, and his heavy
yoke which he put upon us, lighter and
we will serve thee.
The young man Rehoboam thought,
as all rich men and rich men's sons do
that he was born to be served and that
they were born to serve him. He de
spised those whose labor had heaped
wealth up around him and taking coun
sel of others like himself answered
them haughtily thus:
My little finger shall be thicker than
my father's loins. My father made your
yoke heavy, and I will add to your
yoke. My father also chastised you
with whips, but I will chastise you with
scorpions.
He wasnt going to allow a lot of
calamity howlers to Interfere with his
kingly enjoyments, his love of luxury,
display and power; not he. But the
calamity howlers meant business then
as they do now, and crying, "To your
tents, O Israel: "now see to thine house,
David," they slipped the yoke from
their owi necks.
We would not discourage the million
aire Shepard in his use of Scripture,
but would suggest one text which
would be every day appropriate if al
lowed to stand. It has never been used
by him and may not be in his Bible, but
it is in ours, and it reads like this:
"It Is easier for a camel to go through
the eye of a needle than for a rich man
to enter into the kingdom of God."
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