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. My full name is John Henry
Augustus I)e Blank.
Wee Nephew Woo! Did you have
Jhree rich uncles?
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