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A CHAIION OF SILI( Addresses the People of the Country on tie Political Situation Tha Democrats Will Fail as the Republicans Have Failed. MOHEY IS THE GBEAT ISSUE- On That Issue the People Will Elect a President and Congress in 1896 Now is the Time to Organize and Educate. General Warner, president of the bi-metallic league of the United States, on November 22, Issued the following address to the jeoplo of the United States: "Four years ago the republicans came into power and, lor the flrst time in the history of the country, adopted the extreme protective policy of ex cluding trade in competing products in order to preserve the home marKet ex clusively for home products. They assured the country that this policy would stop tbe fall of prices and bring about general prosperity. BUILT UP MONOPOLIES. "It has rot done so; it has not pre vented the continm d fall of prices nor relieved the masses of the people from the evils of increasing debt and taxes, caused by the continued increase in the money standard; on the contrary, it has engendered monopoly and led to combinations to gain, for a few, ad vantages over the many. On the 4th of March noxtn the democrats for the first time in more than thirty years, will have the president and both houses of congress. Theynare pledged to revise the tariff on lines leading to free trade, and promise by this policy to do what the republicans have failed to do. A COLLAPSE WILL COME. "This jwlicy will also fail, and is likely, by increasing imports, to draw away gold and precipitate, instead of preventing the future fall of prices. Then their turn will come. The force bill will be out of the way and there will no longer be a solid south. The ties that bind men to parties whether or no are everywhere being loosened, and principle more and more governs voters. The continued fall of prices is due to one cause, the increase in the money standard, that is, in the value of gold. LEGAL ROBBERY. "In other words, the change is in the measure and not in the commodity. This evil cannot be cured by tariff leg islation. There is no remedy but to atop the increase in the valuation of the money unit, and until this is stop ped tbe stealthy appropriation of the earnings of the people by the insidious device of an increasing money standard will go on. Such a money standard is no more definable or tolerable than would be an increasing unit of length or of weight or volume. MONEY THE ISSUE. "The next issue, therefore, will be the money question. Nor will this . issue be long delayed. Its suppression by the two leading parties in tbe cam paign just closed did not settle it. The people are being educated on the money question farther than politicians comprehend, and they will not submit forever to the robbery of an increasing gold staudard. Now is the time for bi metallists to organize and push to the lront the issue of free bi-motallism." What's The Matter? In his argument presented to tbe fifty-first congress in behalf of the post al telegraph bill, Postmaster General Wanamaker made many good points, among which were tho following: "After standing for the yoar past in the midst of the controversey over post al telegraphy that for over forty years has gone on with sharper touo and widening range, I am more than ever convinced of tho wisdom and practica bility of restoring the telegraph to tho postal service and making it what it was originally intended to be, a part of the postal system. I say this after closely studying the arguments against the bill, mado so vigorously by the great telegraph company who is now its only visible opponent. I do not be lieve it possible to argue this senti ment down. There is a deep and far reaching conviction among the people that tho telegraph service by right is a part of the postal service. To carry me postui servico irom pony-riuer to stage-coach and on to railroad service, and to stop all , further progress be cause three thousand owners of tele graph stock oppose, is not in accord with the genius of our people or tho spirit of the times." In the course of that argument Mr. Wanamaker, quoting "a high authori ty," thus describes the soulless monop oly that stands in the way of the will of the people: "The Western Union company is a little corporation controlled by an ex ecutive committee of three or four gentlemen sitting in their offices in New York. Its wires run all over the country, extending by their connec tions into each part of tho globe. This company controls the market price of each article that is dealt in in every part of the country. It controls, to a greater or less extent, all the news, social, political and general, that is sent over its wires, and every import ant personal telegraph communication. This corporation is uncontrolled by any law save the interest of its direc tors, for there is no law j-n our statute books to regulate this Vast business. The laws of the states have no power to regulate it, for its lines and busi ness runs from one state and from one continent to another, and the instant its lines pass from one state into another they are beyond the reach of the law, of the first state, which are powerless beyond its boundaries, and can not regulate any message going in to another state." What is the matter? Why is not tbe proper bill passed to give the people what they demand a postal telegraph? Ninety-nine out of every hundred peo ple favor government ownership and operation oj telegraph lines, the postmaster-general says that the great! Western Union monopoly U now the "only vnjble ojijioti'-nt ' to tne projwi tlon. but ccnrr- fail U v'tts the bill. Why? Doh Moins Isnulvr. General FMr loiter. Pes Moines. Ia., Nov. 21. General James .. Field, who was General Weaver's running mate on the people's party ticket, has written a letter to General Weaver in which he reviews the late election. "We have been dis appointed in the south," say he. "We expected to carry a few of the states and elect quite a number of representa tives in congress. In thii we failed. But I am not, and I hope you are not, disposed to condemn hastily the people of the south. You realize, I know the power and number of influences combining and operating against us on the minds of the people. The force bill, the old party organization, money, press, and social irfluences, the influences of all corporate wealth and power. Then the belief of the thousands of our friends that we could not win and that more speedy relief could be attained through the old party. Against all these tremendous influences we had nothing to rely upon but the power of truth. And you know that truth does not always triumph in the first conflict. "In the west and northwest we bad better organizations, not so many an tagonizing influences, no race preju dices, and we have done grandly. When we look at the grand results we can justly claim a splendid victory. We have polled nearly a million votes; we have more than doubled our repre sentatives in the senate and house, and wo will hold tho balance of power in the senatt. Of the vast number who voted for you hardly any expected your election. Our party was fighting for position. This it won, and with it a victory. "Mr. Harrison is badly beaten. He had no personal strength or following. Mr. Cleveland owes his election to our presence in tha field, which en abled him to secure electoral votes by pluralities north of the Ohio, which he eould never have secured by majorities in a contest narrowed to the republi cans on the one side and the democrats on the other. Take from Mr. Cleve land the electoral votes north of the Ohio, which he got by virtue of pluralities, and he fails of an election by some twelve or fifteen votes. "Our party of the south will watch with interest for the lead of the more powerful west and northwest, and I hope yov will maintain your position in the front and give us all the advantages of the more compact organization in the two grand sections. In Mr. Cleve land's administration I hope the promises of his friends and the just ex pectations of the people will be fully realized in a national prosperity. If so, well, if not, then the wrongs of the people will cry aloud lor redress through our party." The Situation. Friends of progress and reform, bo not discouraged for our cause is march ing on slowly but surely to final victory. As the smoke of battle clears away we find that the enemy who operated the machinery of government has been ignominiously routed and driven from his stronghold. The democratic party will now assume the reins of government and under the cry of "tariff reform'' will prolong its sxistence until 18!C, by which time the people will find that its administration has failed to give them any substantial relief. In the meantime the principles of progress and reform, advocated by the people's party will have been thor oughly presented to the people and tho great mass of the republicans will fall into line. The living issue before the American peoplo toiay is the finance question. This great question must bi met and decided at the ballot box, and as the iwoplo read and canvass this question and come to understand what money is and tne duty it has tw perform, they will readily perceive that the people's party has taken tho right course and will llock to its support in 18. iho peoples partv demands more money to bo put in circulation by giv ing free coinage to silver. This demand has been denied bv bth the republican and democratic parties and will never be granted while either of them is in power. The educational work and reform literature of the new party has done moro toward destroying the republican party than the democratic cry of ' tariff reform." During its brief career as a national party it has made greater strides to ward victory than any other in the his'ory of this country. Independents, stand by your colors, there never was a brighter day for our cause than today. Keep up the educa tion and agitation bv reform literature and discussion. Organize your people's party clubs for tho coming winter, and invite all who differ with you to come in and give a reason for their belief. We know wo are right and we are bound to win in the end. About all that is worth living for is at stake in this fight, and I for one have enlisted for the war, and propose to stay in the Held until the reins of government are wrested from the hands of the corpora tion robbers, and restored to the people. Yours for the fray. J. B. Romine. FOIl SALE. I offer my farm of 200 acres, two and a quarter miles north of Wahoo, for sale. A good two story house, four rooms down stairs, three np, pantry and three clothes presses, a good cellar 18x28; six acres of bearing orchard and plenty of small fruit; two wells, one wind mill, horse barn 36x30, room for fifteen or twentv tons of hav: cattla shed 82 ft. room for 44 tons of hay, witn stone loundation. Many other improvements. Terms, one half cash down or all, or to suit purchaser. $40 per acre. H. H. Verrell. 22tl Wahoo, Neb. Working Reform. No reform wm ever worked by a manor sot of men making eupiet grimnceu at tho wrong that ar ought to bo reformed. 'oii.but and denunciation alone wilt never accom plish anything. Houibaslic moutb ings may startlo the ignorant and stupid into some sort of action but the ignorant and stupid are not de pendable in a conflict between right and wrong. The work ia band to day is a work of education. The great public needs to be taught in what respect and to what extent the producer has been wronged by other classes and in what respect and to what extent he has been neglected by government. Inere is no trouble in demonstrating that for years his rights have been invaded by concen trated capital and that legislation has been antagonistic to his interests. These newspapers that find it to their interests to attempt to make it appear that the farmer has nothing to complain of. are usually journals of influence. nnd what they say has weight with their readers, who need to be reached and shown that these journals are deceiv ing them. But they cannot be reached and educated by bombastic exhibi tions of tongue or pen. They cannot bo induced to calmly consider the problem of adjusting the respective rights of different classes by long winded editorials, distinguished for thoir astounding stupidity. They must bo approached in a business-like way. facts laid before them and the injustice imposed upon our farm in dustries shown. When this is done the whole work of reform will ba ac complished, for the American is a lover of fair play. It is only a handful that with malice aforethought and heart less depravity aro robbing tho masses according to cunningly laid plans for plunder. The great mass of our peo ple are in pretty nearly absolute ig norance of the terrible wrongs which tho hand Tul have perpetrated and are perpetrating upon the peopla Farm ers' Voice. j2J H It'll llltftl'PHt. The money loaning leech has blel the West unmercifully. He has cut away his pound of flesh with extreme relish. Many of our Western states, in their liboral interest laws, allow the fellow his full pound, but in many cases dissatisfied with the generos ity of the law's provisions, the fellow has demanded even more than a pound and has taken it. We presume that there have been millions of dollars paid in usurious interest by the far mers of the West When it has been safe to charge usurious interest out right it has been done. When there has been some danger in collecting the interest openly, it ha3 been done by hook or crook. The laws against usury should be se vere. In most of our states the legal rate is entirely too high. When money can be borrowed by municipal corporations at even from two to three per cent, there is no Bort of justice in permitting the money grab bers to charge the unreasonable in terest that prevails through the rural districts of the West There are mortgages drawing suojf a frightful rate of interest that the paymentof the principal is utterly out of the question. Farm property is good security. It is the very best of secur ity. There need bo no fear of capital refusing such security much lower than tho present raie of interest Capital is very glad to get s'ik per cent interest Our legislators should cut down the rates. Farmers' Voice. Tho Pfople P.iy tiin rippr. Whitolaw Kcid's paper the New York Tribune, a year or so a;o, in congratulating tho money power upon its most thorough organization, said: The time is near when they (the banks) will feel called upon to act strongly. Mc.inwhile a very good thing lias been done. The machinery is furnished by which, in an emer gency, the financial corporations of the Fast can act in a single day's notice with such power that no act of congress can overcome or resist their decision." What do you. reader, think of glorying over the fact that "in an emergency, tho financial corpora tions of the country can act in a single day's notice with such power that no act of congress can overcome or resist their decision. " It is no wonder that John Sher man's picture (costing $10,000) hanjjs upon tlio walls of the Bank of England. When Lombard street whistles. Wall Street dances; when Wall street whistles, the John Sher man, Whitelaw Ileids. Ben Harrisons, and tho Grover Clovelands get out and dance and the peoplo. well, they have to '-put up" for tho music. Sentinel. (io.d-Ba; Patilo s. The banks of New York, when the government begged for money, prac tically put a knife at the throat of tho nation and threatened to assassinate it unless it yielded to their thievish demands. The government yielded. It issued bonds and sold them to the money-sharks of the country for fifty cents on a dollar, taking its pay in depreciated paper, and then agreed to pay them in gold; and yet these men have always been counted as patriots. They were the biggest traitors that the world ever saw, and we would ask tho people to whom wo have referred as beiner thoughtless, if wo had them before us. if tho people had not a right to complain of such treatment by tho money power and by tho treacherous representatives in cou gress who permitted the injustice? Progressive Poople: Honest dollar The sort that made John Sherman a millionaire'on $6, 000 a year. Tariff Something that always needs fixing when congress has nothing else to da Men would bs very wise if they csuld only learn avmuch as their boys think they could teach them. Thai I load ttchrme. Wixside, Neb., Nov. 21. 1"!2. EJi tor A lli ance I x dkpen dkxt: Have the tax payers of tUis country a friend in the newspaper business who dare raise bis voice against this hellish road scheme that has so recently been developed and is being agitated by many of the seven by nine papers of the country? I say it is time to call a halt until we get our revenue Bystem in running order, or in other words un til we can make tbe burden rest equally on all dollars, wherever they may be found. I see at their meeting in Mem phis they are talking bonds, and in whose interest? Let the kick begin now. H. B. Miller. Note: If you have been reading The Alliaxce-Indepenbent, Bro. Miller, you must know that there cis at least one paper which has spoken em phatically and on sundry occasions against this road scheme. But we are sorry to say that we appear to stand alone in this matter, W e began the work of exposing this scheme more than a year ago. We have always branded it as a "decoy reform" in tended to attract public attention away from real evils. But the good roads agitators seem to have another object in view also, and that is the issue of district and county bonds for road im provement purposes. This will give an opening for the ehylocks to get in their work. "Let tbe kick begin at once." We say "amen," and let's have some more kickers. EDITOR. Mr. Powderly. The Knights of Labor are certainly to be congratulated on the good sense that prompted Mr. Powderly's re-election: and on the ability of Mr. Powderly to once more accept that responsible and influential office. Tbe public has doubted whether the Knights cf Labor appreciated in how good stead Mr. Powderly's temperance, conservatism and frankness has stood them. He has often been a check upon radical measures which would have resulted disastrously. He has had the ability to look into tbe future, and to temper his ways in accordance. He is constructed so that be can see the effect of actions, and he is not the man to win popularity by acceding to the demand made for the hour by the hot-headed among his fol lowers. World-Herald. A Point Well Taken. The Homestead strike is the most costly conflict between labor and capital in the history of Pennsylvania with the single exception of the strikers' riots in Pittsburg in 1877. It cost the state $(100,000 and the cost to the men and the Carnegie company runs into the mill ions. J t has cost labor more money, more loss of life and general poverty to butt their brains out at Homestead than itbas cost the Populists of tho nation to elect six United States senators, fifteen con gressmen and carry five states absolute. The people's party has ever held out an inviting hand to organized labor. Com pare the results. Non-Conformist. The Blue and the Gray. A new magazine with the above title will be started next month. It will be published at Philadelphia. Benjamin K. Davenport of Georgia, editor, and J. W. Morton of Pennsylvania assist ant. The publishers claim to have the encouragement and endorsement of many leading veterans both north and south. Wanted Work. Mr. Muggs Want work eh? Well, that's encouraging, at any rate. What can you do? Tramp I'd like to hire out as a re minder, sir. "A reminder! What's that?" "W'y, sir, every year I'll remind you that it's your wife's birthday, so you kin git her a present, an' not be made miserable for six months." A Foolish Young Man. Mother Why, dear, what's the mat' ter? Daughter Geo George asked me if he could ki kiss me. "Well, my dear, George is a very nice young man, and we all know that be is very much in love with you." "Ye y-e-s, but when he went and and asked me, of course I had to be in dignant and say 'n-o.' Boo, hoo, hoo!', I.ovrd II U l'apa. Little Boy I met Mr. Jones on the street, and he said he wanted to see papa about something, and he called papa a "walkin' encyclopedia." Mamma Indeed! And what did my little pet say to Mr. Jones? Little Boy I called him an old centi pede, an1 threw a stone at him. Conducive to i.raee. She (at the ball) Have you noticed Mr. Downton's remarkable deftness and grace? No matter how great the crowd he never humps against any one. He Y-e-s, I guess he gets his lunches in a stand-up restaurant, where every fellow holds his own coffee. How They Are Named. Wee Nephews Have you any mid dle name, Uncle John? Rich Uncle Yes, I have two middle names. 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