THE ALL I A N 0 E -1 N D E P E N D C NT.
Mr. Davl9 spoke for about two hours.
It is impossible to give the speech in
full - or in a connected manner, but a
fragmentary synopsis will surely be
read with satisfaction.
The speaker commenced by saying
that to be an Amer'can citizen is to be
an American sovereign. Under the
American banner all are American
citizens. All ought to be free but 20,
000,000 under the liberty true are un
der bonds. -.
The mission of the independent party
is not to tear down but to build up.
Our mission as reformers must not be
mistaken. We are not anarchists or
communists neither cormorants nor
the commune.
We believe that the government is a
, great partnership, every member ought
to have a proportionate share in the
distribution of the benefits of the
government. The best function of a
government restrains the strong and
assists the weak. ' When the natural or
proper conditions are changed,
covernment is tvr&nnv.
The power of. taxation is a sacred
power for the people and it never was
intended to take it from them.
Every corporation is a violation of
our sacred rights.. Today- we have
surrendered our power to tax to the
corporations who tax the soverfigns
without their consent. The railroads
alone average $5,000,000 from each state
every year in the amounts of taxation
they impose upon the people, yet the
colonists objected to King George's
taxing the whole nation 55,000,000 dur
ing a period covering several years.
There are laws against obtaining
momey under laise pretenses. The
fellows in the penitentiary
may be in for obtaining small
amounts by false pretenses, forgery or
then, yet the leiiowa who have taken
millions by malicious and false pre
tenses by a cool, calculating system of
forgery are unacquainted with prison
cells. They are in palace cars, brown
stone mansions. '1 hey are chairmen of
the old political parties or are even
clothed in the ermine of the bench that
they may. the better rob the people.
Under those conditions a man's patriot
ism tells him he is not true to himself
and others if he does not rise up and
oojeci. unuer our iree ana ooastea
into , a system oi aeot, degradation and
ruin.
The three elements of civilization are
land, transportation and money. The
proper adjustment . of these elements
means the greatest good to the greatest
number. That should be the result of
the systems governing those three
elements.
Man should have dominion over the
earth. That means you, not the other
fellow. We are doomed to live here. We
came into me world witnout our
knowledge or consent '; and we have a
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rignt to a snare oi me room, n ever
God had intended us to live in the
water he would have provided ;us with
gills. If he he d intended us to live in
the air he would have given us wings.
He did neither. We must live on the
earth.
No sooner dees man make a discovery
or great invention than a corporation
says, "We'll take that." We hand it
over. Corporations control almost
everything that goes to make you and
your families comfortable and happy.
The man created by law is greater
than the man created by the Almighty.
He is the biggest fellow on deck and is
making common deck hands and coal
heavers of the real sovereigns.
We want to put every man down in
the place where Thomas Jefferson left
him and give him a fair show in the
pursuit of happiness. The corporation
kings should be taken down and the
balance of the kings given a i chance.
If there were no monopolists in money,
land and distribution the producers
would not be robbed in reaching
the consumers.
The speaker tlnn told of the absorp
tion of land by corporations and aliens
and said that a destruction of homes
and firesides means, the destruction of
patriotism.
The money question he thought is
the most conspicuous issue of this cam
paign. It is the duty of congress to
create a supply of money and put it
into- circulation, as -
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iust svstem of weights
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rres, for business is
the supply of money.
mucn . as
make . a
and meas-measured
The American people need no lash to
make them work. Corporate taxation
i9 assessed by lightning and collected
by steam. All refoi-ms have started
with the poor humble people who have
afterwards been assisted by the more
powerful and influential. It remains
with us to say whether or not the work
of those people shall live.
All points were profusely illustrated
with apt anecdotes and great pains was
ittfteu iu ueveiup an prujHjsuions mm
down. No one was disappointed in the
speaKer and he will always be given a
warm . welcome by any Nebraska
audience.
Mrs. McCormick of Kansas followed
with some able remarks and Bro. How
ard's quartette sung again.
Hon. W. L. Green of Kearney, who
is prominently spoken of as a candidate
for, attorney-general, was then called
out and made a short speech in his
forcible and eloquent style. He makes
the money question clearer than almost
any speaker in the movement. .
It was nearly midnight when the
audience dispersed.
Do yen want a song which will bring
down the house? We have a regular
swivel gun loaded with fun and thunder
entitled "We Have tho Tariff Yet."
Write us for it.
An Old Soldier Story
When the delegates from the Fourth
district met in K. of L. hall to choose
delegates all the old soldiers were
asked to stand up. There were fifty
ex-union soldiers and several ex-confederates.
Then Capt. Ashby of Beatrice
took tho floer and made a statement
that stirred the hearts of all present.
Ho said he had been a rebel soldier and
near Lexington, Mo., after a battle he
had secured a sword and belt which be
longed to a union soldier named Faith
who was killed in the battle. The
sword he had left in Mississippi
but the belt he had kept. All that is
left of it is the buckle and the letters
!'U. S.',' Captain Ashby said that last
night he had met in the Lindell hotel a
delegate named W. P. Faith and in
conversation had found out that he was
a Fon of the soldier whose sword he
had captured. He had arranged to
present all that remained of the belt
to Mr. Faith at the earliest opportun
ity. Faith said that he would prize
these relics above anything on earth.
This story told by the eloquent captain,
stirred to the depths the feelings of
all present.
Besolutions.
At the independent convention held
at Geneva Saturday, June 25, the fol
lowing resolutions was adopted in mem
ory ot L. L. Polk: ,
Whereas, The Supreme Ruler has
removed from our presence our beloved
brother and esteemed leader, be it
Resolved, That we mourn his untimely
death.
Resolved, That we pledge ourself a
life-long fidelity to the sacred cause for
wdicq ne so earnestly laooreo.
Resolved I hat theso resolutions be
published in The Alliance Independ
ent. J. R Goffary. Secretary.
"The Millenium Armv" is tbe sons
which will take the place in our coming
conflict "which Mrs. Houck's "Battle
Hymu of the Republic" held in tho war
of the rebellion. It is a solo with chorus.
At liaynes, Ark., a negro named
Donnelly was lynched by negroes for
assaulting a young colored girl.
A "moonshine" distillery of 300 gal
lons capacity was seized and destroyed
in the heart of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Joseph Brandon, of Dubuque, Iowa,
janitor of 4he Second Presbyterian
church, has fallen heir to $2,000,000 in
England.
Alexis Romero, a Moxlcao, confessed
on his deathbed in a Detroit hospital
to the murder of his sweetheart, for
which he caused another man to be
hanged.
tA confession by Bill Siockstill and
the surrender of his brother Ike, who
shot Deputy Sheriff Williams, are ex
pected by the Taney county, Missouri,
prosecutor.
A temperance movement has been
started at West Plains. Mo., and a
2 umber of women belonging to the W.
. T. 0. are holding special services of
prayer fn the al
pecial services
saloon and billiard
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