THE ALLIANCE -INDEPENDENT.
1
Un PLUTOCRATIC BARONS
h. Government by the rich and for Use rf ch.
A Suggestion to President Harrison.
Taxpayers of Pennsylvania liave to pay
hundreds of lhoutacds of dollars be
cause the steel barons refuse to arbi
trateThe fiendish treatment ofPri ate
lams. Hamlin Garland on tbe Outrage.
Stevenson to try to save the Carollnas
t tho Democracy. An appeal to
thoughtful people In the South.
BY II. O. FLOWER, EDITOIt OF TIIE "ARENA."
A republican stump speaker declares
rhat Harrison was greatly grieved at
!i ;aring of the massacre of laborers at
Homestead. It would be intcrsting to
know whether our pious president's grief
was occasioned by the number of votes
fcarcd he would lose in the slaughter
of laboring men by plutocratic Hessians,
sr. whether It was for the widows and
little ones in the hamlet at Homestead.
If the latter occasioned his tears I would
viggrst that provided he. has not yd drank up
t i the forty-eight gallons of Scotch whiskey
his friend Andrew Carnegie gave him last
year, he sell the remainder and devote the
vrocxds to the suffering ones at Homestead.
The tax-payers of Pennsylvania are
paying hundn ch of thousands of dollars
to support the militia at Homestead,
bimply because the stqel barons who
know they arc In the wrong refuse to
arbitrate the issue, and Gov. Pattison
expresses himself so determined to bank
rupt the treasury rather than take away
the troops until the matter is settled.
Let inc repeat the important fact: If
Gov, Pattison paid the bills out of his own
pocket, he would without doubt long sinczhave
advised Mr. Frick to sottle the grievance in a
civilized way, intimating at the same time
that Mr. Frick proceeded in high-handed
manner and laid himself open to crim
inal prosecution. As a result Mr. Frick
would without doubt have been willing
to arbitrate, which, according to his
master (Jekyl-HydeCarnegie), who a few
years ago prated in the Forum on how
labor troubles should be settled. I say,
if Gov. Pattison had to pay the bills him
self, this without question is the way he
would proceed ; but as the tax-payers
foot the bills, he permits the enormous
Dxpcnse of upholding the steel barons in
Iheir unjust position, at the point of the
bayonet. But then Pattison is only
acting for the Democratic wing of the
plutocratic party, even as Harrison in
the role of Republican representative of
plutocracy appoints the rich attorney
for the steel barons to the Supreme
Bench.
Justice and right to the masses count
for nothing with the leaders of either
division of plutocracy while the people
pay the bills. . y
Washington dispatches say that the
appointment of Mr. Shiras has caused
great rejoicing among the iron barons of
western Pennsylvania, as they regard
him as specially favorable to them. I
also notice that leading organs of pluto
cracy in the East are applauding this
nomination of a man to the highest
judicial bench, who for years has drawn
princely fees and retainers from rich
railway and iron monopolies, and it is
said that his nomination will render it
easy to raise large campaign funds in
western Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
The torture of Private lams by a
plutocratic officer, Col. Streator, per
petrated a few days since, finds a parallel
only in the atrocities of the Inquisition
of the Middle Age and the approval of
this fiendish ferocity by Gen. Snowden
is a fair hint of what the industrial
millions may expect from the servile
sycophants of plutocracy, when the
aristocracy of the dollar has fettered the
laboring man a little more completely,
as the gold power hopes and expects to
do during tho next four years. Every
laboring man who votes for cither the Repub
lican or Democratic party this year, votes for
plutocracy; nay more, he votes for his own
shivery and for the serfdom of his wife and
children. The money power for the past
generation has by contraction of cur
rency and other legislation, for classes
and against the interest of the masses,
been gradually bringing about a con
dition of industrial slavery which will
end in the practical abolition of the will
of the people and the establishment of a
fsonied despotism, morojerrjbjo u$
absolute monarchy in the old sense,
unless the wage-earner and bread-winner
of the Republic act promptly and
unitedly against their common enemy
the gold power, ably represented to-day
by Harrison and Cleveland and their
lieutenants, Depew and Whitney.
Let us look at the ease of lams from
another standpoint. If Hugh O'Donncll
had been shot down and Officer Green
or Col. Streator, or some other officer,
who, like them grovel before the steel
barons, had shouted, "Hurrah for the
man who shot O'Donncll 1" would Gen.
Snowdcn have ordered the offender
strung up by the thumbs ; or would he
have approved such fiendish brutality
on the part of any other persons who
might have been in command ? Oh no ;
it is probable, on the other hand that the
guilty person would have been recom
mended for promotion, for he would
hav been pleasing to plutocracy. Let
us not wilfully close our eyes to the
truth until it is too late. The offamcfor
which lams was so severely tortured lay in
his PRESUMING TO 8FEAK AGAINST MONEY
BAGS and showing sympathy for the poor.
In the eyes of such apologies for men as
Gen. Snowdcn and Col. Streator, to
refuse to grovel before lawless gold bugs
is high treason meriting torture. And
yet this, is called the land of the free t
When Hamlin Garland, of our Anna
staff, read of tho outrage against lams,
he promptly penned the following letter
to the BostonDaily Globe, which appeared
on the morning of the 2Gth i
To the Editcr of The Globe :
I -wish- to publicly utter my solemn protest
against the mad -savagery of tho colonel com
manding the militia at Homestead.
It is inhuman as Rus&ia and despotic as
China.
You say iti ail editorial, this morning. "If
Bergman is to blind, that he can not discrim
inate between the methods to be employed in a
republic and in a despotism, etc." I am not
blind to tho light of our free republic's glory,
but as I .lead this morning's papers I cannot dis
criminate bctwecu the military methods ol
despotic Russia and free Pennsylvania.
Admitting that Private lams conld not remain
a militiaman and state his honest cpini n. what
excuse is there for the barbarous, inhuman,
devilish severity of punishment which the
colonel cooly put upon him, while the turcon
held the watch and felt his pulse that lit should
not die?
He suffered a thousand times a natural
death. No Indian burnt at the staH could
Buffer more.
llo practically was murdered, and for what
norribie thing?
What atrocity had ho committed?
What unnamable horror had this young man
been guilty of ?
Simply that of speaking his mind in a free
conn try.
God of liberty and justice forgive the word!
Why? Simply because the power of the
militia of the State of Pennsylvania must be
vindicated, the authority of its ofllcers must
be demonstrated and its ranks maintained
intact.
I do not propose to enter into a discussion of
the whole question of the lock-out, but I simply
wish to say that if the militia of Pennsylvania
wielics to destroy itself, to break down the last
bulwark of just law and let in the floods of
desperate men who stand tense with angerwith
ont, let them commit one more such outrage
upon the body Oi" an American citizen.
There is no law in the statute books of
Pennsylvania that will justify this unspeakable
horror.
There is nothing, will justify it but the
savage selfishness or the ruling classes in Penn
sylvania. I am non-combatant. I would not take life on
any account, r.nd I will not be silent in the face
of a deed which menaces the liberty of every
plain-spoken man and threatens the peace of a
people by ringing an alarm bell in the ears of a
people already restless with wrong. Yours sin
cerely, Hamlin Gakland.
July 24th.
Garland is nothing if not a true friend
of the people. He had before him the
open homes of the elite, the palaces of
the bankers and bondholders ; his won
derful power as a writer made him the
literary lion of Boston ; but he deliber
ately, declined the honors at the price
asked. He wrote the "Alliance Wedge
in Congress," and "A Spoil of Office"
which championed the cause of the
Farmers' Alliance and assailed the
ofiicial corruption, which is prostrating
our nation, and lol one of the great
Boston papers which has championed
the young author and liberally has
noticed his every effort, but which wras
also a bondholding organ, has not one
word to say about him since he wrote
the "Alliance Wedge." Neither of his
last books have been noticed. This is
interesting showing how sharply tho
lines are being drawn here in the East.
I see Mr. Stevenson, Democratic can
didate for Vice-President, has promised
to answer the Macedonian cry from
North and South Carolina and makfiia
half dozen speeches in these afs?.
That isrigUtj if the Northern pemct:;
hope fo continue' to hold the Southern
Democracy in tho position of a faithful
valet, they "must put forth all possible
efforts to keep a solid South ; otherwise
the South would soon become a political
factor in tho election. Cleveland and
Stevenson arc shrewd. They belong to
the Northern wing of tho Democratic
party and do not want the South to
become a political power. Meanwhile
I believe our Southern voters are not
the numskulls their patronizing Northern
masters'iraaginc. Let the South eman
cipate herself next November !
Notes Iroin tho Field
Kansas is alive with interest and de
votion to tho People's cause. The so
called fusion was no fusion at all it was
simply a common senso action on the
part of Democracy. Knowing that the
Democratic party of Kansas could not
figure in a National campaign, they
came all the distance, accepted all the
situation and all the issues of tho Peo
ple's party. The Republican party oi
Kansas would have given its eye teeth
to have just such fusion with Democracy.
But the truth is many of tho leading
Democrats of the State are well in
formed, superior and patriotic men
whoso efforts for years have been to
bring about juster conditions for the
people. Western Democracy has been
engaged in a hopeless struggle with the
Eastern section of its own party II
has been vanquished by tho corporation
serving faction every time. This time
they make common causo in Kansas,
with the people against tho plutocrats.
I spoke yesterday at a large and enthu
siastic People's party meeting one ol
the old fashioned picnics of 1890. .To
night I shall speak to a town audience
and shall have less applause but shall
make more converts. At yesterday's
meeting there was hardly anybody but
those who aro already in tho ark oi
safety.
I called upon all those who were in
dignant over the outrage perpetrated
upon Private lams to rise. The entire
audience rose and responded to my ap
peal that the case be not forgotten and
that a sentiment of such magnitude be
created that the courts would not dare
to decide adversely on the righteous
claim of the Ignored soldier for $10,000
damages.
Tho Kansas crops are splendid. The
farmers thank God that they will have a
little more money to spare for the nec
essary expenses of the campaign. And
oh, how hotly they resent the insult to
their intelligence in the oft repeated
statement made by Republicans that
"the good crop will send the farmers
back to tho old party."
Annie L. Diggs.
; I
Tho Topoka Tribuno: One can
hardly understand why tho people,
after having kept their oyes closed to
this greatest of all questions r0P 60
Ion:, should so suddenly open them
and grasp tho situat'on. It is indeed
marvelous. For yours and years
honest intelligent men and womon
have been stigmatized a3 anarchists,
socialists and cranks becauso thoy
dared to protest against the system
of coercing and robbing labor with
the aid of corporation armies tho sys
tem which is just now being de
nounced by a largo majority of tho
newspapers. And becauso they in
sisted that protection was a failure as
far as it concerned tho wage worker
they wero called tho political .idiots.
Now tbe truth has dawned so sud
denly on tho defenders of these timo
honored fallacies that they are
knocked silly, and sorno of them aro
howling louder than tho most ardeat
cahimityite.
Onoof the larjjost camollut ti'ce3 i:i
Europe is that which ia at Pillnitz.
near Dresden, and forms one of the
sights of the district. It was imported
fro:n Japan about 150 years ago, is
cbcut 17 yards high and has an annual
average of 40,003 blossoms.
Tut a buzzard in a pen about six foot
sat: are and open at tho top, and It Is
aa much a prisoner as though it woro
shut up in a' box. This is bocauso buz
zards always begin their flight by talc
ing a short run, and they olther can
not or will not attempt to fly unless
A Sussex, Eng., correspondent ar
nounceson the authority of his vicar,
that nine out of ten among tho tum
bler brides swear to "love and honor
cherries and a berry," instead the reg
ular "cherish and obey" of tho mar
riage service.
John Melleron, a Philadelphia cart
man, has been somewhat surprised at
the receipt of a draft for 4,600 from a
son who was taken with tho gold fever
about fifteen years ago, and has finally
turned up as the superintendent of a
rich silver mine in Mexico with an in
come of S200.000 a vear. ,
Notice to Bridge Contractors.'
Notice ia hereby Riven, that seskd bids will
bo received by tbe County Clerk of Furnas
Cjunty Nebraska lor theerotlo-J of om com
bination bridge across tho Republican river
on tho county lino bo'ween Harlan and Fur
nas counties near tho villajra of Oxford.
Said bridge to be SHJU root lonj? and to con
slstof (1 spans of 00 feet each with a roadway
14 I ft wide in tho clear, and Ihe road bed to
bo 1 1 feet ntove low water mark.
Sad bridge to be built In nil icsp?ct accor
ding to the nlaus ont epot locations now on
HI in tho olllce of tho couvty clerk.
Tho commissioners of Furnas County and
Ihe supervisor of Harlan county will enter
iuto a joint cottract for tho erection of said
bridge.
1 ho bids for snrao will bo received by the
undersigned on or heforo noou of Septomber
5th. IMC and must t o accompanied by a good
and Pulncieiitb' nd in ras contract is uwaraea.
The county commissioners however reserve
tho rghtto rci ct any and all bid.
wituers tny nana and county seal tola istuay
U. W. MCr ADDEN,
Of AuifUtt IKtt,
(SR.iL) JHt
County Clerk.
NOTICE TO BRIDGE BUILDERS.
The hoard of (supervisors of Ilhdan County,
Nebraska, will receive sen led bids for tho con
struction ot two comlifmitlon bridges an follows:
One combination bridge accros l!oie creek
en main traveled rotul between Alma and Or
kuns, known us the c In y pool bridge, said bridge
to consist of one span !A) fect across with a road
bed 10 feet wide, faid bridge to rest on 3 oak
piling at each end of Ihe bridge, with an ap
proach of 1 feet on west end and the road
bed to be not less than 18 fect above low water
mark.
Also for one combination bridge across Metho
dist creek lu Alma township, known as the
Merger bridge, tlio fame to consist of one Bpan
50 feet across, with a road bed 16 feet wide, said
bridge to rest on 3 oak idling at each end, with a
10 feet approach at each end, and road bed to be
not less than ;.'0 feet above low watermark.
Separate bids will be received for 2 inch hard
pine and oak flooring of the road bed of each of
the forgoing bridges.
Sealed bids must be filed with the undersigned
on or before AuwttiSnd 180'J. at in o'clock a.
in. at which time contracts will be awarded
llids must be accompanied by a good and suf
ficient bond in caee contract is awarded.
Thu county board however reserves tho right
to reject any or all bids.
Witness my hand and seal at Alma this 15th
day of July, a. d- 1892. Tuko. Maun.
County Clerk.
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