The Alliance-independent. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1892-1894, December 28, 1893, Page 4, Image 4
THK ALLlAflOK-INDEPENDENT. DECEMBER 2S 1893 THE OnaolidaUon Of the ftictn illiisctsHeDraska tedcpcndtnt The Alliance Publishing Co iim M Street, Lincoln, Neb. 1 v. wi.re. Proa. H. S.Bowm. Sec. .. rri. BXTBSCRIPTION OirS DOIXA FIR YEAB nw Ann Giaao Baiter ni: T URirrii. Business Manager. J. bTHTATT Advertising a ngr liJU.-i.U- HW"PSWW. "If any man nut fell (or dm to Hm, Then Mk I not to climb. Another! reln I ehooM not for my food. A golden chain, mlK of Tannnr. ll too KOOd t price To tempt my hMiy band to do a wrong rrt & r.iinw mu. This life bath W Sufficient, wrought by man's tetanic fee; And who that bath a heart would dare prolong n. -aa aorrnw u stricken soul That seeks a healing balm to make It wboler My boaotn own the brotherhood 01 man. N. L P. A. Publisher- Anaoanoement. The subscription prtce of the AvufMcm-Ui-WieunM Is W W) per year, Invariably In ad- owrr In soliciting subscriptions should be very careful that aU name are correctly spelled Itnd proper ppstufflce given. Wanks "or return .ubiJcrtptlon, return envelopee, to., can be bad on application te thta efHc. Always Kin yeur name. No matu how Often you write us do not neglect this Import ant matter. Kvery week we receive letters with Incomplete eddieae or without signa tures and ll la sometime difficult to locate CbaVoi or addhm. Subscribers wishing o chance their pnetofflce address must always fire tbelr former a well a tbelr preeegt ad resa when change will be promptly wade. Aoareu au miw)r uu gum nayable to nun At I 1 AMIIP. PITH fV).. Lincoln, Neb. FOOLISHNESS OF MAN'S WISDOM, Qettlng ai much at one can, While gl vlng.the leant that one mint, i hnid tn be practical wisdom by man; In all of the matter of business bli plan Regards not tbe tblag that la just. Belflsbness, meanness, and guile, We eulitvate dally In trade; We hold back the truth for advantage tbe while, Till tht which wan honest'and noble Is Tile Tie thu that our fortunes are made. But gain Is at terrible cost , In hardness and meanness of soul? And good which we ought to appreciate most, Tbe faith and the service of neighbors, Is lost When "business" steps In to control. Pressure of want and o( oars, The strain and temptations of life, , The waste of distrust In tbe struggle nnfair, And burdens of gainers that losers must bear, Is more of tbe cost of tbe strife. Whether we think so or not, One's losses are losses for all; The hand caunet lose and 1U service be what It otherwise would be In helping the foot On all must each Injury fall. Whether we wtli;it or no, Our good Is the good of tbe rest, We can't get away from the want and the woe That we bring upon others, nor gain as we go The good of the people oppressed. Justice In commerce would hold, As gravity does la the skies, -A balance of forces ; the bought and the seld With She means of eztbaage, whether paper or gold. Kept equal, no want could arise. Tollers, producing tbe whole Exchanging would each draw bis part If each had just credit or cash to control The fraction put In, to Us owner 'twould roll And empty each fast-filling mart. -Giobui Howard Gibson. Thb notoriously corrupt Connecticut legislature keeps up a state militia at a tax expense of $235,000 a year, a drilled and officered army which, according to a recent report, can be "mobilized within twelve hours in case of a strike." The expensive militia are tbe capital lata' army to force the poor to quietly work for them on their own term. The net loss of gold in the years 1800 Ml and '1)2 amounts to 1106,320,000, This year the exoes of gold exported oyer what was Imported up to Novem ber 1st, is given at nearly 97,000,000. A fine commodity to base our whole financial system, our commercial and industrial activities on, a metal that plays bide, and seek with us and keeps calling for bonds, more and more bonds. And what la gold that we should wor ship it, that we should place our liber ties in the bauds of its posscssora? 1 1 is simply the product of tabor, no b-tur than any other product. Ami shall the producer of It be enslaved by It? t " ..,-!! I111.1 - 1..JI Til a Farm, Field and Fireside says J, Sterling Morton should reslga. b.x.ue he rvprretatf ant the thirty million of our population lntereatd la sericul ture, but J, Sterling alone. SveooJ, brtuM tf his Ignore aoe of what Is wanted to pruaiote the hrst InWrvtU tf grUmltur, shown la his oxl'oa U the I'alWd Statue Ki pertinent H'nUon. Third, because "this erg nof wUI an frout NebreAa Is endeavoring to d s'.tuy the market fald'y growing up la rns eeJ Urmay for Amrl'ii surau " Ur -rout7eJ H ervUry Hu's meat lu-in Uoa a ftiUre, and, (Meg a with lt b4 !, mftlela lag ItWhUe, U aUrady r'trl4 front IWilia. Mru has n4e aa m f attseelf, an I the whule farnlag ela Is dea Hag that they U glva a It maa rtpreteal thent la the rablaot THE PLAH OF TEE ESEMI Last week we called attention to the apparent plan of the Republicaa party to get ita great news and political weeklies into all Nebraska homes, to so crowd outur Populist weeklies as far as possible and counteract and destroy their influence. The Toledo Blade, Globe-Democrat and State Journal are about giving away their political poison, and throwing In attractive premiums to Introduce It. Already hundreds of thousands of these papers are being read in Nebraska. We have knowledge that they are being circulated as never before, cd the indications are unmis takably strong that political funds are being supplied to multiply and circulate them. Some time ago the following letter in circular form was sent to the banks throughout the country by the Bankers' Association. Read and pon der it: Dkar Sm: It Is advisable to do all in your power to sustain such daily and prominent weekly newsppers, espe cially the agricultural and teiigious press, as will oppose the issuing of greenback paper money, and that you withhold Datrontee or favors from ail applicants who are not willing to oppose the Government isue oi money, uov the Government lssuo tbe coin and the banks isnue the paper mon-y of tbe country, for then we can better protect each other. To repeal the law creating national banks, or to restore to oircuia tlon the Government issue of money, will be to provide the people with mnnAT and will, therefore, serioiittly affect your individual profits as banker and lender. See your member of Con gresi at once, and engage him to sup port our interest, that we may control legislation. (Signed by the Secretary.) Jab. Bukil, No. 147 Broadway, Room 4, New York. This letter shows that tho mont powerful organization in tbe world Is fighting us, and fighting us with tho keenest intelligence, with the shrewd est plans and vast money resources. The bankers already own the greater part of tho stock of the metropolitan dallies, and they are adding whatever capital is needed to make attractive and push the circulation of the weekly newspaper which each daily publishing company issues. The bankers are glad to have a tariff noise kept up, and any thing agitated which diver ts the popu lar attention; but their gaze Is unceas ingly riveted to the mney question. It matters not to them what the old par ties fight about, for both parties belong to and are dependent on them. The Populist party is the only force that threatens them. The Populist party Is strong and growing stronger where its weekly papers are being read. So the soheme is to prepare cheaper weeklies and newsier weeklies to overmatch ours greatly in circulation, to occupy the weekly field ahead of us and culti vate partisan prejudice and the Shy lock money superstition, and so to effectu ally check our farther growth. These papers are already In tie field and working like Trojans to down us. And toe warn Nebraska Populists, the work, ers and those who ought to be workers in every county and neighborhood in the state, that thty will down us if there is not a sud den and general waking up to meet this emergency, this masterly movement against us. The majority of our own voters are taking these papers, and, in consequenoe largely, are not taking their own papers. A considerable per centage of these, with no truth coming in to counteract the crafty partisan in flue nop, will drink la enough mlscon ceptlon in a few months toconfuae their Judgment and destroy tbelr faith In our leaders, If not in our causa. These are facts which wo have pre seated. Now will our readers be Indi vldually aroused to act at Is necessary? We must have the circulation of our Populist papers greatly extended, and we have no Sbylock funds to pay for it. Many of our poople take the Coming Nation, the New Nation, the Nonconfor mist, or the National Watchman. That Is all right, frle ads; but thesa papers, grand good papurs though they are, cannot take the place, ur do the work, of a g il state) paper. Take at many papvrt as yoj can. but at peril to tht cause la your own state neglect to tak and til puh the circulation of j our own state papvr. We shall watch the c4 u'nas of the great Itpubllvaa wekU which are bring soa broadcast orr Nebraska, aad shall furnish la Tut ALUN-n-lMOtrit.MiKf aatld ia for all Utir polee. We theivft ak all our readers who will help, to sla the wivfcvfV pledge fuuad la the upHr er aer of tm first page an 4 send ll to us. The pledge Is hot auwiry at all, If y u dtellie U2jtt Mea la a good e.tuse. Uut, vtr the) love of humaaUr, for the lave of liberty, for the tvv l your chlMree If fi have aay, g t work k spread the truth by securing subscri bers for a paper that publishes It. The world cannot move forward except as men who se the truth help others tee It. THE SHAH ABTI-TRU3T L1W. It Is one of the tricks of polities to make laws of nt value to fool the peo ple. Political platforms of all parties, the old as well as the new, call for popu lar reforms, Inveigh against injustice. and promise mny things. But plat forms are made to tret in on. and old parties are never any more hampered with them than Cleveland and the Democratic party has been with the plank pledging no discrimination azalnst silver. The laws that have to be made to satisfy popular demands and (rive to the party an appearance of consistency, are seldom sound and effec tive. This is the case with the anti trust law. The Republican and Demo cratic platforrts had opposed "trusts and combinations, which oppress the people." As the New York Indepen dent says, "the anti-trust act was pass ed avowedly to crush supposed mono polios, and in a general spirltof hostility to corporations. Its provisions were severe In language, and there was at the time a popular Impression that tbe aim and effect of the statute was to break up and prevent those1 aggrega tlons of caplal so common la our day and which are sometimes on so large a scale as practically to control all the branches of an extensive industry." it has, however, brokeu up nothing. It was not made for that purpose. In the first place it can only operate on such trade as is carried on between the several states. All contracts aad busl ness confined to state lines is outside the jurisdiction of congress, and the railroads being governed by a special law are exempt. But the reason why the law has not been executed remains to be told, According to Attorney General Olney's just published annual report the law is unconstitutional. Hers is the argument condensed: "The United States cannot limit prl vate citizens in their right to accuuia late er control property, nor prescribe tbe price at wlich property shall e sold; nor pass criminal laws about tbe intent and purpose of citizens in buying and Belling." What then constitutes a monopoly which the constitution does not defend? General Olney quotes with approval Judge Jackson's, decision, which de clarcs: Monopoly as prohibited by the statute means an exclusive right in one party, coupled with a legal restriction or restraint upon some other party which prevents the latter from exercising or enjoying tbe same right. Judgo Jackson is now on the supreme bench, and there Is little doubt his de cision would be sustained by that body. If so, under the rule of the old parties we can expect no relief, and can figure out just about how long It will take the present commercial rulers, with their monopoly-enforced tribute, to buy up the rest of the natural resources, and beoomo the sole, absolute owners of tbe country. Less than thirty years will do it. Through monopoly dictated profits (robbery), thirty billions worth of land, capital and money have been taken in thirty yeara from the inheritance and earnings of the people. Out of a total national wealth ot 6lxty-five to seventy billions, thirty seven billions are now owned wd absolutely controlled by a few thousand monopolists. More than half the people are homeless or deeply in debt. And the harder the workers work the faster will tho rich accumu late, aud the sooner will :they have mc-afts to finish buying tho Republic. The antl-trufctlaw is very ornamental, but of no possible use. Trusts, mono polies and corporation combines are a legitimate offspring and part of selfish, struggling individualism. If one man may make inequitable terms and trades with his neighbor, two throe, a hundred or a thousand may pool their wealth ami their advantages and make still botWr terms for themselves. If the liberty of the individual to make uujimt prices and oontracts Is snored, the liberty ot any number ot individuals to do likewise is sacred; and as a oonse quenoo universal freedom, tho indepve denoa of the common people, Is a fast vanUhtng dram. Hut the 1 (.! 's party says, the trusts and perfected monopolies shall not tx aut tribute from ami enslave the peo ple. And It has a constitutional way to a? our ItVrl.o, aud to avert the Impending revolution. OOUMENDATIOS WHICH 0AEEIE3 WEIGH r, We Use the liberty of printing frout a lttr revived from l'ruf. Wm. A. Jen. s tif Uasttags a tow words of cmoi tueailitUou J it received, lie say; "Yaur catlf aitoa of the loWMkwaa mn I thank to4 f.r. lay m. mh t "I H d.i all I ran o vUad I UK A 14.1 ANvt l.it'txiiNr t..njr a It will hit tueft. W a it dt this eit. It U in tot;ent aumbrr." Ho, Jonn tirsmuya wrie 'iK-ar blr:-YiHt r tta ttwi right r m mtiv tig i t, nw at thee wmo would Utivy lltwrtj , 1 V....- . I a -'1 ,1,1,1. a ....... nave re4 ana eiot4 eleeeiy jtuir oMre. . . . , . MUwullf yen rsnuot iy ttMt suovh ee to that the rmly fr fit prat erl U rogbt ti tv. Jo swt?4 all the IViiM'Ui heve to d U t advo te a rmrj la eea and put. He urg thai the let Helags haek aod guverataeat Mia sitteos be a4noaU4 by our prvte, "THE CRT OF THE POOR-" ITbe following article was written over two years sgo by the present editor of this paper, it has greater force no than when written, because of the des perate condition of the vast army of the unemployed. For this reason and be cause It will now reach a large number of new readers, at the request also of several subscribers, it ts reproduced with slight changes: "When a man finds himself going down and down and down, without powt r to mend things; freeaing, hunger lng and dying by incbes, he's sure to get des;erate. la ine last weex I've rx-or an atheist, anarchist and devil I've sar here and cried out that there was no God except for the rich. I've said that if 1 could get dow stairs again I'd burn and kill I've looked at wife and children with murder in my heart!" These words were recently tpoken to a reporter of the New York World by a sick man living with his wife and children in a dingy room on the third floor of a miserable tenement house in Now York city. The poor man's hell. which thty so truly, so graphically de scribe is, however, but Imperfectly comprehended, and awakens only sur face sympathy, until we study his situation in the light of the following ordinary news Item which we clip from another paper: "At a dinner given in New York the otber day to thirty-three persons the bill was $0,500, or 1200 a plate." Is there any certain connection be tween tbe two conditions and expert ences of human life revealed by these common facte? The hard working poor evidently think so. Why i id this man, sick and hungry and cold, cry out against the rich? Why, when be looked at his hollow eyed wife and famishing, freezing chil dren, did the rplrlt of destruction and murder struggle within him? May we not even believe that he gave too hard a came to the spiritjthat moved him? Was it not the love of Justice in an honest man, the hatred of injustice, and an intense love of wife and little onof. that burned in bis soul and that made him fierce for judgment? Let the rich beware. The poor in this land will not endure what the arage slaves of other lands have suf fered. Human law and bumin teaching will not be reverenced when it is found that they contain for the poor neither justice nor mercy, All men love liberty. AU desire Jhapilnesc And who thall stand in the way of their obtaining It? The poor were not mado to be beasts of burden for the Idle rich. They were not created to be the dependent slaves of scheming capitalists. Yet a part, small part of tbe people, have so mo nopolized tbe means of production and exchange that they have enslaved the rest. Can the poor be blamed, then, If they declare their independence, and when pushed to the wall, fight for it? More and more they realize that but for unjust laws they would have been born with equal rights in the earth, equal opportunities and privileges with all others. Why should they be ob liged to beg for a place to wort. Why must they sell their labor for less than It produces? Who forged the name of God and signed the deed to disinherit them? Is not God's curse upon thote wh "join house to house and lay field to field till there be no place?" Has He not Tade ample natural provision for aU whom Ho creates, and planned for each a place where he may work to satisfy his needs? Who, then, are these who hold the keys of earth and stand with legal despotic power between it and the workers? Nino out of every tea of our citizens, the worrlod, the anxious, the over-bur dened as well as those who are out of work, and hungry are thinking, study lng,- questioning. Why should not working and enjojing be inseparably united? How can the Idle bo rich and respectable? The whole productive clans, ftrccd to accept the tasks Im posed by capitalist, groans and labors In pain together, and voiced or un voiced one prayer is In all hearts. "Uo wttvre I will I bear a cound Like sullen thunder shake the ground." Out cf tho mines It mutters. Above the roar of factories It rises. Wherever workmen meet it threatens. Where faraiers stand allied It breaks with mighty voice and tho one word that all are saying Is, "WE WANT NO KIaNT.3." O cruel travesty of freedom and just laws! O taaaUHi land of liberty, where robbers rulot We pity the aacleut sttui over which thirty tyrante reigned, while thirty lAoumJ sit enthroueU above ue, a 4 drive to treadmill toll the nation's Bullions! In thirty yvare our thirty thousand kings have by monop oly secured cae-belf of all productions, half of all wvallh la store, They now control all wine, all railroads, all fao VrUe Med mtlls, all motive owef ud lie machinery, They hold the light ainf la their hands, and sWsm Is tbetr'e aloe, ft r them the rarth spout tilt. lor tHeta her irva, .l and every use. ful tutaeral was ord, It seine, Tu them ivme silly ndlll lor work, and prW'-, aud bow evtbiielie to the money kiefs. If all snea are "created equal" suae shsll b alUwed la ealee thtm. It eaua has iti' le Useable right" to "life, liberty aid tai pursuit ef ItappUe," each mutt but (M glvea title to such a orllwi ot the evtK aad lU forces as Is necessary to sustain life and gratify legitimate desires Tbe means of production must be equally possessed at birth, and none can be disinherited. Down thrn, with monopolies. Give back to each his birthright. Stand out of the factory's door. Take your Pinker ton's from the mines' mouths. Give to the people's representatives the keys to nature's common storehouses, and N willing workers enter to supply th needs. Make every man a worker, ana secure to each the full product of his labor, or ita equivalent labor product when he must needs exchange. Force men not working to consume what they with prevlons toil produced, instead of living as leeches, fastened to the weary muscles and sucking the life-blood of those who still must work. Harness Job's modern steeds to the flying car, to the whirring wheels, to tireless lever arms and iron fingers, -to 'the common load of productive labor, and shorten and lighten the necessary work of each citizen an equal amount But where is the church which says, "Our Father," and prays,' "Thy king dom come?" Has it raised Its voice sgainst monopoly? Does It consider the poor and the common cause of their poverty? Does it "relieve the op pressed?" Does it "Judge the father less," and "plead for the widow?" Does it face the usurer, the money loaner, and say, God's curse Is on you? Does It require Its rich communicants to love the poor as they love themselves? For the rich the church has de molished "the strait gate." With a lit tle talk, some professed faith and a few dollars doled out in charity, they enter a palace car and are put to sleep by pleas ing platitudes and monotonous, mean ingless abstractions, expecting to wake up in heaven. But uffoa hardly shall they that hare riches enter into the king dom cf God?" The parable of the rich man who had more than he needed, yet permitted the poor to Buffer, . and who waked up in hell, means something. Not to the rich alone but to the church that shelters them, comes the word, "Whoso stoppeth bis ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry him self, but shall not ba heard." MONOPOLY P0WEE AND TENDENOT. If there is no restraint, no legal re striction upi n any parly, we may safely rest quietly ana await results, bo lar tbe corporation fear has proven to be a ougaboo. if anything really demand ing legislation should arise in the future, it can be dealt with then. The Attorney-General is entitled to thanks himself a corporation lawyer for 1 tutting tbe care, commercially an) egally, clearly before the people. Very few persons, indeed, have a legal mon opoly of any sort. The (N. i.) Inde pendent. The banks, for Instance, have no monopo'y, according to the new defini tion. There is no law restraining any five men or more from going into the banking business, But the refusal the banks to loan money as usual brought on the panic and consequent commercial paralysis, and showed that they have a monopoly of necessary cash or credit. Nor can banks, with the limited volume of gold, if gold is to be the base of credit, Increase in number and overthrow or reduce the grasp of. the money monopoly. Another thing. Monopolies of almost any and every sort do not, as the Independent s pleased to believe, necessarily call into existence competition which de stroys them. After a certain advantage is gained, an economic advantage secured, which enables them to destroy all rivals. And all monopolies by in vestment In the limited natural re. sources can command an ever-increas lng tribute from the landless class and those whose land does not make them Independent. The land monopoly and the money monopoly and the tranepor tation monopoly can, In spite of all pos sible cjmpetition, absorb all surplus wealth and with it buy up in acompara tively short time all the natural resour ces of our people. AMERICAN FiDERAHON OF LABOR PLATFORM. The American Federation of Labor, at its recent annual meeting in Chicago adopted a twelve plank platform, call lng for compulsory education, direct legislation, a legal eight-hour work day, failtary, Inspection o workshops, mint a and homes, liability of employer for physical disability, abolition of contract labor In all publto works, abolition of the sweating tjs tom, municipal ownership of stnet ears, electric lights and gas plants, na tional possession ot tub-graph, tele phone, railroad and mines, collective vwnershlp by the people of all meaus uf production and distribution, the prln clple ef rvfereudum to all legWlatl n, This la the moral, political, social erred of ?50,0;o uiuber of trades unions, mea who vou la the eltle. ThU vote should be l.u4 with our, and ntay bo, If we eae through es change of lda Woota erquiiated. 1UI UIQUX WJ, OLD OEOYEa. The ftiea la power aoru the aater ntve a grl rvgeiM fur, aa e!l4 opUloa of, our Aweriea-i IHotator. Ill here uo UaUl dtd (Mltfht them Us subjugation tt C -egrets (through uleial U aad u)d bug bttK-ri ), hit tramrll"? the parly plUg that !cWd htri, hU bt. ( dethronement id he pW will ai 4 the ntaalaf lu'o aerafhl pen aid nail streets-ail this, U their ppiulwa, eatlUoe hl to the reverence Europeans give to their kings. The London Spectator, among other worshipful compliments, has this to say of His 'ighness: He will be as efficient a factor la American politics aa any continental monarch in those of hia own country. Indeed, we doubt if Emperor William could have struck down a great and previously triumphant party, supported by a huge mass of interests, as Presi dent Cleveland has in a few short jionths struck down the sliver men. Ova readers will do well to make note of the fact, that the Nebraska Sav ings and Investment Company of Oma ha, and the National Guarantee and In vestment Company of Lincoln, are in eluded in a list of about fifty sintllar concerns which the Post Office Depart ment has given orders to shut out from using the malls, not to deliver register ed letters to them or cash money ordera for them, and to prosecute them under the law prohibiting lotteries and deny ing the use of the mails for fraudulent purposes. THE SPIRIT OF COMMERCIALISM. The American republic has become a government of money, for money, and by money. Caroline de Maupassant. This is fearfully true. Politics has long been a money making business. In stead ef the office seeking the man. there is always a scramble for the offi ces. The strong, the selfish, the un scrupulous are usually elected. The sacred temple of justice, of law, hag thus been profaned by Mammon wor shippers, and license to rob the people has In numberless enactments been sold to favored classes. Among our law makers and stronger classes there seems to be no fear of God, no rever ence for the rights of man. no noble, unselfish patriotism. Class legislation has been found to be a wonderfully valua ble lawfully respectable help tn trans ferring the earnings of the money Into the pockets of the greedy. And fo the whole time, nearly, of our law-making assemblies is spent in efforts to legislate far or against certain classes. It is all an individual and class war for money, for power. If there Is no help for this, if we cannot revive in our people some thing better than the beastly business principle of "each for himself," if we cannot shame them out of grabbing, grinding! and groveling in mammon " worship, the nation is doomed. The spirit of commercialism tbe very op posite of what it ought to be, brotherly love is destructive of patriotism. It Is practical atheism, and will, if it is not subdued end in anarchy. "WHO LIES? AN INTERROGATION." This depression is not confined to the United States, but is world wide and baa been steadily extending ever since the famous Baring collapse. In Europe the condition of affairs is much worse than here, being complicated by vexed social political and International difficulties. Of all countries, in the world the United States shows the greatest re cuperative powers, and willundoubted ly be the first nation to feel the revival already heavily overdue. Financial Report. Now see here. Either the financial writers are lying about this, er the en tire Republican press is booked for a place in the brimstone lake. In tbe first place the Republicans, Democrats and usurers in one, grand, deafening, harmonious chorus declared that too much silver was destroying confidence and causing bankruptcy and ruin. Re moving the cause we should remove the evil, they said. It was done, but tho eyil only grew worse. Prices took a great tumSle im mediately, and the confidence promised with the Wilson bill passage has neither arrived frem England, nor revived in America. Then the Republicans went back oo their own assertions, that silver money was ruining us, called their fellow-prevaricators liars, and declared that "No other cause for business stagnation than that of dread of tariff revolution can now be assigned." But this is r.ow seen to be a trick of Ilepubii :an politics; for there is no tariff scare in any other part of the world, and the depression is world wide. And, take notice, It is not silver, nor tariff; but usury, the tribute of monopoly, that has cauccd It. 80ME THOUGHTS FOR THE THOUGHT FUL- The demand for merchandise- of all sort Is, however, of a strlotly hand to- mourn onaraewr. mgia economies are blng practiced at the mill, at the ottioo and In the horn, the effect of bloh cannot be otherwise than to greatly restrict consumption. Among ne laboring Classes l hens It much die- tra and many Idle bands, all of which mesne tht production must continue ou a reduced scsle until a re an thin from hU depreaalua suU a, -Financial Import. This beglas to sound somelhlog like. the ka-'hlog of lUskta anj common sense, "Consumption 1 the crow a ot production." The greater the number eo us vIUd to eoonoatUd, the leM wlU ba the demand fur labor, Tk tmis of l ymr 4 He mUiie tht eYSaai Me ikh, lost a Ihty Ueeoe consumption, preveat production. lUnuewy aad eoeuvulalK a are there. ore the eiuee of poverty and ik tf era ploy tnat, Hat stunting, repi-vering ecoaoutU are fore4 en the pr Ulrg a ly t&e ra;iutlsile, at pruflt. 4oatiiy s)sWm of produeUoa, The tiple today caaaet buy b 'li what tht hare prod aad empty tie market, booauee the money paid them fur Qiilef r