THE ALLIANCE
INDEPENDENT.
A EEVEEIE.
What joy in June to waken s' j the
farm one owns but does not work; to
lie and listen to the songs of birds that
know no cage and feel no bonnds in all
the earth to hedge them in. How fresh
the morning air that through the open
window stirs the lace that partly hides
the morning sun. How sweet the
scent of roses as they b!oom beneath
the sill. What Nature does is always
good, for underneath the creatures of
her hand, Divinity has placed the ap
proving seal. How joyful then to wake
in June where nature quickens all the
pulse with love of what she's done; where
all the sentiments of mind and heart
are quickeno I toward the puro and
good in mat. It secmi a pity too
that where such beauty ii, so few can
see its joys. The tired husbandman
and weary wife can scarce secure
the needed rest, ere morning's
hour brings them no joy in
contemplatioa of the day. To most
of them the day brings toil and care
and dust and sweat and anxious
thought of debts that must be paid.
For most it brings the treadmill of the
days before; and blooming flowers and
singing birds claim little thought from
those whose limbs are tired and spirits
pressed. God grant the time may
come when Nature's noble men and
maids may hav such comfort from
their toil as rightly should be theirs.
When man and wife who by their work
produce the comforts for a score of
men, may share those comforts some
what twixed themselves and not be
Jound by undeserving debt to toil and
slave and s?ll oft-times for less than
cost with decent wages added in. Let
all who love the joys which nature
would extend to all mankind, but
which the grasping few
have wrested from the race,
stand forth and help earth's yeomanry
to hold the share which nature meant
for them and not for lordly, idle
whelps who by their shrewd, dishonest
ways have got the lion's share.
AN INSULT.
The people's party is handicapped by
an army of long-haired cranks who are
a positive detriment to the causo they
advocate Evening News.
Does the News think that it makes
friend for the republican party by ap
plying epithets to those who do not
agree with that party? Are dandified
dudes who suck cane heads and try to
edit republican papers so far in advance
of the rough clad-cladi farmers that the
thing must be commented upon in the
public press? Because the farmer can
not sleek his hair and trim his beard
just after the fashion of Prince Collars-and-Cuffs,
or some other high and lord
ly mightiness, is he to be considered "a
positive detriment to the cause he ad
vocates?" Shame.
The farmers and laborers of the
country know infinitely more about the
real political, financial and industrial
needs of the country than do the well
dressed, slick headed, short bearded
corporation tools who run papers m the
interest of the rings. These "nice"
men ougf to be contented with get
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THE STATE CONVENTION.
In cumbers, in earnestness, in enthu
siasm, in union of sentiment and har
mony of action the independent s'ato
convention was all that could bo de
sired. Observing men who have
watched the rise of the reform move
ment recognize in this convention the
strongest indication of the real depth
and permanent character oftho move
ment. In view of the fact that the conven
tion was simply a delegate conventiod
with no state ticket to put up and no
platform to formulate, the attendance
and the enthusiasm were simply won
derful. There is a power of public
sentiment behind a movement that dis
plays such strength under such ordina
ry circumstances.
The personel of the convention was
something of which every independent
may be proud. A finer body of men
never met in Nebrrska. The conven
tion was composed principally! of far
mers, with here and there a doctor, a
merchant, a mechanic or an attorney.
The delegates showed by their earnest
faces and their careful discussions that
they feel the weight of responsibility
which rests upon them.
While most of the delegates were
men of calloused hands and sun-brown
ed cheeks, they were men whose heads
were uot muddled with false principles
and sophistry, and whose consciences
were not drowned in the sea of political
iniquity. There have been conven
tions with many more high hats and
high collars, but never a convention
with more high and worthy aspira
tions or more pure and patriotic purposes.
The scene in the convention hall
when the blue and the gray came to
gether in fraternal greetings and
marched together around the hall, un
der the stars and stripes, was one long
to be remembered by those who wit
nessed it. The day of sectional division
will be forever gone when the people's
party triumphs.
The convention showed that the in
dependents are learning By experience.
The convention was orderly, business
was dispatched with promptness and
skill. Recks and snags were wisely
avoided. Great tact and good judg
ment was dispiayed in tha selection of
delegates. In fact the whole conven
tion was marked by wisdom of action,
arid fraternity of spirit. This grand
convention points unerringly toward a
complete victory for the party in
November..
The discussion of the boycott ques
tion in the great convention showed a
strong sympathy with the system.
Cyclone Davis of Texas put the subject
in a unique way by saying that the boy
cott is no interference with any man's
business but is simply letting one's en
emy alone. His sentiment that one
should let his enemies alone and stay
close to his friends was received with
great applause.
The inspiring influences of the great
convention will be felt all over Nebras
Ka during the coming campaign. Hopes
are raised, confidence is strengthened,
courage is increased and enthusiasm is
enkindled by. meeting such grand,
strong, patriotic men as were there as
sembled from every quarter of the
country. Hundreds of Nebraskans were
there to feel the uplifting influence,and
they will go forth into the state to im
bue others with the enthusiasm there
enkindled.
IT IS COMING.
Nothing is more amusing in these
times of political excitement, than to
witne? s the discussions that occur on
the streets and in the hotel corridors
between the old party politicians and
the crazy reformers. Many a man who
has thought that ho could talk politics
aad was quite well posted, has discov
ered that the "long-haired farmers and
the greasy mechanics," as the old party
papers call them, know more about the
topics of the day than these old ring-
sters ever dreamed of.
A campaign of education has been
going on. which the old rope-pullers
know but little about, and the fruit of
this educational seed, sown in alliance
meetings and Knights of Labor halls
and through reform papers, is begin
ning to ripen. Laboring men by the
thousands are more than equal in de
bate to experienced politicians of the
old school. Many a lawyer who has
prided himself upon being well in
formed, has found that a common
rough-clad farmer could pick his so
phestries to pieces as easily as a child
would scatter in the wind the down of
the milk-weed and the thistle.
When the great common people dis
cover that they have been wronged,
that they have been purposely misled,
and that the great principles of patriot
ism which once served as the basis of
political action, have given way to
sorid plans for private gain and person
al aggrandigement, what wonder that
there should be a revolt? When these
common people are shown that the two
old parties have kept up a constant fire
on each other to attract attention and
divert the public mind from real issues
what wonder that they should lose in
terest in those old parites? When men
from their own ranks step forward and
show up these fallacies and call for
united action in an entirely new line,
what wonder that the great army of
working men and women should flock
into this reform movement?
If the signs of the times do not mis
lead us, the designing avaricious, un
scrupulous men who control both old
parties, have gone a step too far and are
destined to reap the reward of their
own folly. There is a limit to endur
ance and there is a point at which pa
tience ceases to be a virtue. And we
believe and hope that that limit has
been reached in America politics,
and that a political revolution is at
hand which shall unseat the gold
crowned kings and place the scepter of
power once more in the hands of the
sovereign people.
A very general feeling of satisfac
tion with the work at Omaha is felt by
the people's party men in Nebraska.
The ticket becomes stronger and
stronger as men view it from every
standpoint. Men who were anxious for
the nomination of Judge Gresham,
while realizing that he would have
been a lower of strength in Indiana
and Illinois, are also aware
that General Weaver will be a
tower of strength in the south
and will surely carry several southern
states that might have been lost with
any new man who had been generally
considered a republican. As it is, the
candidates and the platform are known
to be thoroughly in harmony and all
ground for question, on that SQore, is
cut off. The belief is growing into a
conviction .that the Qmaha convention
did the wisest and best thjng and that
the chances for victory are increasing
daily.
SETTING A GOOD EXAMPLE.
In the Omaha Bee's report of the
people's convention the following sig
nificant language appears:
In one very significant respect could
the old political parties afford to follow
the example that is being set by tho
people's party leaders in these latter
days of practical politics. There are
no Hills openly striving for the politi
cal nomination: there are no Clever
lands with their Whitneys on tho
ground skillfully laying wires for
later political triumph; there are no
Harrisons with a horde of office seekers
striving frantically for tho glorifica
tion of their chief; and there are no
Blaines to receive the hero
worship of their adherents.
but destined to rrn dnwn
in defeat with their idolatrous admirers
mourning and refusing to be comforted.
Tho man who receives from the peo
ple's party convention the nomination
for the presidoncv of the United States
will receive it unsought and it must
come to him unbeckoned. Tho nomin
ation must seek tho man and not tho
man tho nomination. Half a dozen
)rominent leaders of tho great inde
xjndent movement are freely discussed,
)ut not one has vet arrived unnn t)i
trround and none is making tho iirhtpt.
effort for that great honor which any
ono might covet.
Their Mistake.
When Currle and Stovie walked out on their
ear,
They Bala "What a hole we shall mak .....
Haw the G . O. P. iaMis will clap us and cheer.
And the poor iadependetti will quake."
But now yj'ey look backwark ajd can't fee
the spot
Where they onco thought they managed the
earth;
And nobody weeping and nobody hot,
And their flop has cost more than it's worth.
When a fellow goes back on a party that's
right ,
ro one he has shown to be wrong,
He feels mighty sneaky and looks mighty
white
As he sees the true party march on.
GOVERNMENT BANKING.
This is a subject to which the mem
bers of the people's party ought to give
careful and immediate attention. If
tho idea of government loans to tho
people is ever made practicable it must
be through a system of sub-treasuries
or' government banks. No other plan
yet proposed has been complete or gen
eral enough to warrant adoption. In
the south the sub-treasury plan is
familiar and popular. The same may
be said of the land loan scheme in the
west, and postal savings banks in the
east. But all these plans may be em
brflced in the plan of government
banking. . - :
It is idle to talk of finance reform
through the issue of money alone. If
the machinery of the financial world is
left in the hands of the thoroughly or
ganized bankers and money loaners
which now control the finances of the
country, how long would it take them
to reproduce ths conditions which now
prevail? These organized bankers con
stitute" tho most powerful corrupting
force in American politics. Shall we
have this foros in undisturbed c opera
tion? '
Whenever congress fully exercises
its constitutional duty "to regulate pom
merce between the states" it must own
the two great instruments of that com
meece: The transportation system and
the banking system.
Where was Paddock when the light
was turned out? The vote on the sil
ver bill shows that he voted against re
committing the bill. That was all right
but why did he not vot8 either way up
on the passage of the bill? Manderson
went on record by voting against the
ill, but where was Paddock?