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I choose not for my good. A golden chain.
A. robe of honor. 1 too good a prli
To tempt mj hwty hand to do a wrong
Unto a fellow man. Thla life hath woe
..... wmuirht bT man'a atanlc foe;
And whothat bath a heart would dare prolong
Or add a aorrow to a sincatB u.
That a healing balm to make H whole?
My besom own the brotneroooa m mu.
Pnhlleherw AniiOBnoenient.
The subscription price of the A"AJ'0'1,,'
BiBriHDuiT Is 11.00 per year, in adano.
J,M,n iutaicrlBHoaa should be
earr careful that al
flUkd as uiim.p-o -
names are wnw
spelled and
proper wwttofflce given.
always slim yeur name. No matter now
tftn youwXuado Dot neKlech a 1
ant matter. Bverv week we receive
with incomplete address, or wHhout slgna
tare and it Is sometimes fllfflcult to locate
CiSaVc or address. Subscriber wtahlag
t" their poatofflce addree.
aire tbel? former as well as their preeen wa
eWwhen change will be promptly made.
Bank clearings in seven principal
Cltlei for the week ending Feb. 18 were
37 per cent loss than for the correspond-tag-
week of last year. The failures al
so numbered 320 aa compared with 197
in 1803. Prices also are like Milton's
hell; for in the lowest deep, a lower
deep, still threatening to devour us.
opeis wide.'
This Atlanta Constitution says: "The
brethren of Nebraska City ought to
know that it will not make a Democrat
out of a gold doodlebug to burn him in
effigy."
Thb editor and proprietor of the
Grand Island Democrat starts a column
editorial with the well-spoken sentence:
The Democracy of Nebraska and the
nation are In a deplorable condition in
deed" ' ..-.---
The deposits in the State savings
banks of New York were $12,000,000 less
In 1893 than 1892, and $34,000,000 more
was withdrawn thah was deposited dur
ing the year.
The latest news reports that the suf
fering among the poor in Austria Is very
great, and that over 100,000 men are
' out of work in the city ol Vienna. Sim
ilar reports come from Italy and Ger
many. About thirty names have already
been suggested for the paper, and one
has by unanimous vote been decided on,
The drawings for the electro are made,
and the came and design including
mottoes we are sure will delight our
readers. The whole thing Is an Inspir
ation. There is no other paper in the
world named like it, or so well, and it
will 'greatly help in introducing the
paper. The heading plate cannot be
secured belore two weeks from now,
probably.
Thb editor of the New Charter,
edited by M. W. Wilklns, formerly
editor of The Nonconformist and The
National Spectator, want a business
partner. Mr. Wilklns lb one of bright
est and brainiest of the reform editors
of the country, aad ht paper, published
at Santa Cruz California, a town of 7,000
inhabitants, in the most delightful cli
mate la the world, offers a fine prospect
and most attractive home and business
for the right man.
Wb rarely think it pays to correct in
a tucceeding pap r any errors in proof
reading or proof correcting, but one or
two In our last lasuo were so absurd that
we must. The short article headed
"Poems of the South." should have read
' Peon of the South." Leaving out
the letter r in employers changed the
wni.e of onescnn3e most bewildering
lyj the word "and" wa also printed
"a." It occasionally happen that an
article I written at the very last and
the tdltor cannot get revise of the
copy, or i called away w It turn t seeing
even flrt prvof. The srJWt over-
eight sometime wake the worst pea-
lbl alteration.
Tuor. GroKUa 1. HesNon, I) 1 , of
Iowa College, author of "The New lie
deoiptlae." a bowk wnUy reviews la
tho column. bM aa rttal (a the
February U&, CongregallanaUsl i
"A Christian Thory of the litrtb
tla t4 Wtfttlth," whl h we nWna toi
19 publish, IVt'l. Uerrott tsrtro vitif
to rubbish fro-) forgotten, mUun lr
stttul law, AaJ U raUleg up ih found
turu of maay gearratio, lu U aoi
the teavhrr of Applkd ChrU'anltj
imply for I w ldU. hut he U fre
tag the !lfhelag, dlt Mint truth ta
to aad ihrwuf a aU LrUwnJotA 1U I
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y. i p. a.
PROPOSED POLITICAL
TI0S.
TWn WArW ncrald of Friday last
J. UW v.. -.
printed the following communication in
a LI
it editorial department ana in aouoie
leaded favorable comment desired thit
Populists and Democrat discuss fusion
through Its columns:
Tn th Editor of the World-Hp raid
The union of the Populists and D-mo
.-.ta in th liu,t legislature was a suc
cess and there is no reason why another
such union should not be iormeu Be
tween these parties for the campaign of
1894. With thefo parties cuviueu tu
Republicans hope to elect not oniy me
entire state ticket, but also a majority
of the legislature and six congressman.
If tha Democrats and Populists united
on a state tlcitet it wouiu wj
matt for them to unite on
candidates for congress in each of the
six districts and such a good feeling
would prevail that this union would ex
tend to members of the legUUturo. I
a v it (a tim for the Democrats ana
Populists of this state to redeem Ne
hmilr. from the Remiblicsn party;
divided, this can never be accomplished
But with the two parties unitea it can
be done. What do the World Herald
readers ssy? Ad: pen and tree discus
sion will be well, I suggest the party
that takes the governor to taite one
other office, the other five state offices
to go to the other party, i sugges a
conference between representative
Democrats and Independents to discuss
this proposition. Let us act in 18
wlta our eyes open. Nebraska should
ha redefined. The Democrats and
Populists united can do the work. What
do you say?
A William v. Allen maw.
In the flrt place there was no union
of the Populists and Democrats in the
last legislature. The Populists united
with no Democrats, voted for no Demo
crat. Allen was our man, ana: Jonn n.
hurston, the Union raclflo at
torney and great "protectloa" orator,
was the Republican candidate. The
Democrats chose to vote for Allen rather
than stultify themselves and their
party by voting for Thurston. That
was all there was to it.
And think of the ideaof a Democratic
redeemerl
Thia"Wm. V.Allen man" is doubt
less a Democrat,and it is more than
likely he holds down a desk in the
World-Herald office. No real Populist
can be found among us so utterly devoid
of political sense as to propose what he
proposes. If any man calling himself a
Populist did write the above letter he
Is ashamed to let his name bo known
that is evident; and he is a traitor in the
camp. Jhepiaceior every man who
wants to fuse with the Democrats is,
and has ever been, with the Democrats.
Ho is made of tradiDg purchasable Btulf.
Such men are not Populists. They can't
ba. They haven't enough of the salt of
principle In them to save them from
the dunghill, und they are an offense to
the moral sense of every honest man.
They work tbe greatest possible harm
to any reform party they attach them
selves to; and they b-lng to any such
party complete destruction if allowed
in one or two campaigns to tie it to or
fuse it with either of the corrupt old
parties.
Great snakes! What is the Democratic
party that it should come courting the
PopulUts? The half masked servant of
the gold bugs! The Wall street "strad
dle-bug" and rake! The painted prosti
tute that for a year past has been lying
(In every sense) with the John Sherman
crowd! Itfwaa placed In power by
secret Wall street influence and funds,
by platform ambiguities and lying cam
paign promises, by disgusted, dis
couraged Republicans of the working
class, by playing the gold bug act in
the east and the free silver act In the
west and south.
What did it do as soon as it elected
the pig-headed, bull-necked Grover, the
mam with a mugwump-endorsed,
civil tervice-reform (!) character? Elected
on a platform pledged "to the coinage
of both gold and Bllver, Iwlthout dis
crimination against either metal or
charge for mintage," Its first adminis
trative act was te call a special session
of congress to entirely eloe the mints
against silver; and so con uptlble were
Us leaders; so great the power of Cleve
land pie and the banking fraternity's
ubiquitous political influence (campaign
funds), that the damnable deed wa
done. The Republicans helped to do it
of course, but the Democratic president
demanded it at Wall street's behest.
and over half of the Democrat mo ruber
tn the House, th popular branch of the
legislative body, repudiated the Ration
al platform, and struck down half of
what the last l)mocratlo conviction
ealUd the "standard money of the
country." That one act, joining hand
with the Republican kadrr aad
usurers to cut trT the people' supply ef
money, and double dent aad make per
petual stave of the people, should make
the IVirtorratla party a kissing and
byword, a horror and hmlhUg to the
poop!.
Hut that wa not all. It In national
platform d'ouao4 the robWr trust
aud monopoly combinations of capital,
and said, "W demaad. the rigid ra
foroeiurBt v4 law mad to prevvat and
cuttral thim, Wg'thsf ith. luctk fur
ther lU!U..B la m'ratat tf tlt
at.u a ipriBo may show to b
teMry," AJ the la the laUrt
wf the tru' aal ewpurailoa CUy!a4
rpulatod toe hi aitrary-grartl
ta who ta hi annual-report declares
'The I'al'vd ttUW raaaot limit p'l
VeU rUltoM ta their !fcts t t-uiuu
twwirrM
intent and purpose of citizens in buying
and selling."
Anil ha In tha same reoort adopts as
hU own this Judze Jackson definition
of Re pub ican an ti monopoly
"MonoDolv as prohibited by the
statute means an exclusive rljrbt la one
Dartv. couvltd tttth a Ug&l it triction or
restraint upon some other party which
prevents the latter from exercising or
enjoying the same rignt.
That is the sort of sham anti trust and
anti-monopoly party we are asked to
fuse with; the kind that makes bonds for
Wall street and the people, and which
defines monopoly to be something we
haven't got Itjis an anything and every
thing, free stiver, single gold stand
ard, wildcat banks, bonds and-promlses
for-all, goldbug, straddlebug. high
pro tcctive-Wilson-tarlff-for-incidental-re
ven u t o-create-a-deficit-for--green-
Dack-boupht-gold interest -bearing-paper,
sucker-catching, intrinslc-boodlc-
Democracy, and the devil behind it,
which we are asked to trade with.
And just look at the Dsmocraey in
thU state. It is simply Republican
machine number two, run by Sterling
Morton, Tobe Castor, Jim Iioyd and t
lot of railroad, Wall street, adnlnlstra
tion pie biters. In tbe last convention
but one It was for free silver and elect
ed Bryan on that platform. In the last
convention tt turned goldbug to please
Cleveland and eet the post offices, and
threw Bryan down and trampled him in
the mud by a vote of three to one
a?ainst sustaining him in his course, a
course marked out for him by the pre
vious convention. '
And how did the Democrats vote in
the last election? The returns showed
that in Otoe, Cass and other counties
where they were strong enough to
elect their entire county tickets they
elected their county officials, and on
the state ticket, instead of voting far
their own candidate, Irvine, or for our
candidate, they threw their strength to
the Republican railroad candidate,
IarrUon. They in fact elected Harrl-
and defeated Holcomb.
To the Republican party with all your
fusion. We are not in it. We can just
thresh tbe earth with you botb, and we
are going to do it. If the honest rank
and file Democrats and the Calhoun.
Bryan, Hroady sort of men haven't got
sense enough to come over to the Popu
lists where they belong, they can just
literally go the dogs and stay there. '
ALL HONOR TO JUDGE CALDWELL.
We had our penail just ready to write
up the subjscfc of the Dundy Caldwell
decisions last week when interrupted.
It seems almost too late now to write
regarding them but wo will put the case
briefly before our readers for the bene
fit of some who may not take other
papers than ours. The Northern Pacific
Railroad some time ago passed into the
hands of receivers who reduced the
wages of its employes seven and a half
per cent., and Judge Jenkins of the U.
S. Circuit court approved this action
and accompanied this approval with an
order restraining the employes from
striking. It read as follows:
The men are to refrain from combin
ing and cunsplrlng to quit, with or with
out notice, the service Ajsaid receivers
with the object and intent ol crtppurg
the property in their custody, or em
barrasslng the operation of said railroad j
and from so quitting the service of the
said receivers, with orwlthout notice, I
as to cripple the property or to prevent
or hinder the operation of said railroad.
The men were given no hearing what
ever, the judge riding rough shod over
all the rights of free men and free con
tract, guaranteed by the constitution.
Judge Dundy's order was like Jen-
kins'. But the high and mighty Dundy
who also considered men nothing and
money everything, had a higher judge
over him who is a man, and stands for
the rights of working men. Judge
Caldwell of the U.S. Circuit court
(above Dundy) sent the railroad's Re
publican party eulogist (Thurston) home
with the words:
Go back to Omaha and revoke that
order, then I will take your case. Pre
pare and advertise your schedule, and
Blve the men notice, and I think that
sixty days might not be unreasonable.
1 will come to Omaha aad hold tho con
ference with your receiver and the
representatives of the labor societies,
and we w ill see if we cannot agree upon
a scneuuie mat wui be just to tho em
ployee, and will be such as tho receiv
ers can afford to pay.
If the men are working under what Is
termed free contract, the contract be
tween private parties, si one party to
the contract they would undeniably be
free to quit, alogly or In a body, when
the other party to the contract InaisUxl
on changteg tt term. Oa the other
hand tf both parties to the contract ate
aodiT state control and wage are to be
fixed by the ceurt, then, a an catera
editor ha welt ald, "both parties must
be represented before the tribunal, and
th corporation, or receiver, must
have no mon right to ducharge em
ploy w ithout notice and without can
than tha employe hav ta Wave their
employ uiiiat-
i'ha cdiliw it Th Outlook, whM
word w hav quoted sail fanner,
"We twlWiv that ta tbe ca (4 rl
tarrying cwpurattoatt state eootml t
bettor than frevdan of cut trait, aad w
Wflcom tf ry approach to It. h'at
control of r:m4! a few ytar ago
wa rvgarded a lb holloa ol bf
few uepractivah:; now (Hialog
practically lataarTeut through jad total
Wt ! by tha eeurt anion ar not
uur bMttaU regarded ftlleprettatlaf
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THE 14TSTEET OF LITE-
We are moving the world this week
a never bf f ore. At least that is true if
the proverb L-true resrardicg "the hand
that rocks the cradle."
We firmly grasp the graphite with
our right, and gently tip the rocker with
our left, while (the baby sweetly sleep
ing) weighty problems slowly solve
themselves and serious words begin to
multiply, for "copy." Then comes pa
ternid punctuation.
Can we expect the masses, the com
mon people, the poor, the ignorant and
the oppressed to free themselves? Docs
history record a single instance where
the oppressors, conbcience smitten, gave
a great class of slaves their liberty? Is
there a force "that makes for righteous
ness" which moves the world of men
straight on to better deeds and just?
Is truth eternal, resistless, the majesty
and power of God?
The poor are not to be left to free
themselves. Brave men and true, and
mighty men of mind are rising up to
advocate their
'"Hush, my babe, lie still and slum
ber'." Rockety rockety rockety
rock. "Bl-lo ba-by-bun-tln, Dad dy's
gone-a-hun-tin,For-toge t-a-rab-bi t-skln
To- wrap-the-baby's foot-ies-in."
(Wonder if that boy isn't what you
would call a regular calamity howler?)
"Well he fell det wight up. Ho pa
pa's darlin' baby." Did they 'buse him?
Let him starve, wouldn't they, if he
didn't do some howlin'? Has just as
much right in the world and to tbe
world, as anyboly else, hasn't he? And
what do his rights amount to if he can't
work or eat, and nobody cares for him.
Here, nurse, take him to mamma."
Bjrn on last press day, Tuesday Feb.
20tb, jugt in time to play havoc with
proof reading, to the editor and his
wife a splendid boy, weighing: eight
and three-fourths pounds.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAH?
Tho New York Tribune commenting
On Secretary Lamont's recent report,
advocates as a preparation fcr war that
we begin with the children and "give
them at a receptive age such military
drills as will enable them to become, if
need be, good soldiers in later life."
It goes on to say:
This plan has bsen on trial for sever
al years In the public schools of Boston,
with admirable results. 1 he Grand
Army has taken up the subject and ex-
President Harrison has commended
military instruction in schools. Plans
for extending such teaching have been
been brought to the attention of the
War Department by Captain E. L
Zalinskl, and there is a growing senti
ment in favor of having all American
boys learn that they have a country to
defend and bow to be able to defend it.
This training should be provided for
by the National and State governments,
aud might well be made to include ail
boys in the public schools not physically
disqualified. Boys learn the manual of
arms readily and delight in the drill.
I heir physical condition Is Improved by
the exercise, -and habits of obedience
and self-denial are inculcated and made
permanent, which are not only advan
tageous in their effect on the school
deportment of the pupils, but are also of
great benefit in after life.
Now what does all this mean? What
nation on earth is going to make war on
tbe United States? There Isn't even
the remotest possibility of any foreign
power fighting U3, and everybody knows
it. But the capitalists of this country
know there will be need of a drilled,
disciplined army to keep down and
shoot down the organized brotherhoods
of working men, the men who are cer
tain to firmly and unitedly resist re
ductions In wages which the advancing
power of capital (If nothing is done to
cut it off) will ba sure to demand. The
great struggle before us is the conflict
between tlie workers and their law-entrenched,
military-defended masters.
As the money, capital and natural re
sources go on concentrating themselvei
by the interest, rent and net profit pro
cess into monopolists' hands, the num
ber entirely dependent on the capital
ists will increase, the competition for
employment will get ever stronger and
stronger, the result being to force wages
down and compel the working class to
live more anl more cheaply and
wretchedly, unless they organize in
great bodies and stand together to up
hold gigantic strikes. It is for these
times of increasing industrial war,
foreshadowed by Homestead, that mili
tary preparation on the most extensive
ajale, reaching to alt the children of
tha public schools, is being planned for
and pressed.
Fetlow countrymen, thla Is an alarm
lng proposition, an alarming state of
affairs which rail tt forth. Jay Gould
coatemptuously remarked that he could
htrohalf the men of thU country to
h ot the other half down, llut to be
sure of well disciplined soldiery who
can be depended on. when command
U toibcotdowB their neighbor and
fellow cllUens, a ready a lt Picker-
ton hireling were at llotnesfcad aad al
tho CVac da AUm mine, tt t thought
prudent to twgln with tha ehttdrvn aud
youth. They must be fired with the
Idea H at "they have a country (owacd
a4 ruled by raptuiittadefia:.M that
they "would t performing a patriot!
da'y to fire i&ta aita break ur aay
orgartlicd rll tae to the demand of
ei'tal. They i.mt "habit ct
cbod'cptM" formed la tarn, uaqUVu
tag military obedience), wh'ch til t t
trot thm ' U tr life."
tgkil4 plunder, walverttt aUvwry,
M tha in vi ter all h resist the
and programme of the powers that be,
it is oeiicvea oy inem tna. they can
always divide the voter over the tariff
question, that the working class will
not have sense enocgh to come together
in the Populist party, and, placing it
Wx 1 m . ...
with their votes in power, nationalize
the banks, railrcads, mines and othe
monop3lies. And if our present rulers
are right, a class war, butchery, a reign
of terror, death and destruction are in
etVab't.
L it ts be alive over thU questicn of
another civil war to retain the owner
ship and services of the wage slaves cf
America. And if wo cannot frown
down and put a stop to tbe military
training of our young mes, youth and
children, let us turn the Industrial Le
gion into a military organization to
prepare for the defense of our inalien
able rights, and the liberties that yet
remain to us. A Legion In every local i
ty mat can nght as well as vote, may
soon be needed,
it
A FALSIFIES AUD SLAHDEREE.
One G. L. E. Klingbeil of Alliance,
Neb., occupies four columns of space in
the last issue of the Alliance Times,
Box Butte coanty paper, replying to
Populist neighbor who it seems has
been caning him down and trying to
drive a little sense into his partisan
skull. In the closing part of this
lengthy article, full of false statements
a id wrong conclusions, the real charac
ter of the man is shown.
Speaking of the fact given by his
Populist neighbor that out of 1 15 farms
fn his precinct all but 20 of them were
mortgaged. Klingbeil savs:
"If these loans were inquired into it
wouia De iouna to be a B'gn ol prosDerlty
in ninety per cent, of the cases. People
almost always go into debt to improve
tneir condition."
He then goes on to say: "In support
of this assertion 1 will quote from a
'calamity howler 'sheet, Tni. Alliance
Independent of November 0, 189S. It
is good reading, sound sense, and cer
tainly must have gotten into that con
veyor of inflammatory ideas by mistake.'
Following this sentence is a paragraph
which he alleges is taken from this
paper. And it was taken from this
paper with the exception of one word,
the important word on which the argu
ment of not only its own but of several
succeeding paragraphs depended. He
cuts out the word "value" and Inserts
the word"volume" to serve his purpose.
The sentence as printed in our paper
ads:
"A continued increase in the value of
money paralyzes business.
Now notice how changing the one
word value will give a statement
diametrically opposed to the above. He
has it by deliberate perversion in this
form:
"A continued increase in tho volume
of money paralyzes business."
The firat statement is true, the gar
bled statement is false. The sentence
was not ours but was with the argument
which followed, reprinted from Mr. G.
P. Osborne's book, Principles of Eco
nomics, because it supported oar argu
ments regarding the evils of a steadily
appreciating gold money.
A man who will thus ascribe false
teacking and insert words not his own
into the utterance of another, is a falsi
fier of the meanest, most unprincipled
sort. He doubtless calculated that the
paper in which his forgery of our teach
ing was published would not reach our
office aud be seen. But he is caught
and branded. Let him next time re
member that our words are on file, and
that it is dangerous to misrepresent
our teaching. For tbe benefit of his
neighbors who may get lost iu his fig
ures, unsupported statements and false
reasoning, we will append below the two
paragraphs which followed and which
were in argument connected vlth the
oua Kilnabell garbled. Mr. Osborne
went on to say:
Nothing is so discouraging to a debt
or as to feel that he must pay more than
he borrowed, and where money Is In
creasing in value he must pay more.
The price of goods is continually falling,
and men will not do business on a fall
ing market if they can help It. They
would rather be out of business and let
the production of the country stop; and
this means a financial panic, in which
rich and poor lose ten times what tbe
creditor ha gained by getting a littlo
more valuo than he loaued.
If there were to be any continued
change In the value of money, It would
bj bolter to hove it aiowiy titcrtasi
rather than slowly iarrtaso, because
busines 1 always active on a rtdng
market. Nwt tt 1 not simply that
busines men, who are mostly borrow
er, make a little more profit; the im
portant rtiult 1 that busines is active,
and every man ta the country ha an
opportunity to work; al. capital 1 euv
t lcyed. Mill do n t tami idle. More
good are produced, ant.' the popltlm
mom. Wmt are better suppiU'd. It
t a question, ibdi't'd. if full tUlty t
ewrcn except on a rising market,
wlA at least a ;lght fall ta the vlu
vf money.
D.t Stanton, Coif t f the I'alve'slty
j .tUment, New Vftk, rtscomuicndslbe
tiedltgrof ftA tXXi.OtA) ta that city
fur needed pub! Id wor'a which would
gh the poor inptoymrat. He would
haw fcine pibita baths, fute new echo 'I
boufcrs, tho underground rlly, park
Improve' rue nts aad a (prcdaay, AU t
bo built made by the city lteir. Hal
lh raptuHtl who wish to clear aw to
iweaty fiie pvr cat. dl (deed an pnf
its en ail -eU job i t cmr rait ih
cry of sx'.ilUm; and thi rr 4hty of
j f"U kt ta b afraid of eoruaiea at
ADDRESS OF 5 ATI05AL COMMITTEE
The People's party national committee
at its February 22nd, meeting prepared
an address to the Populisms of the
country which we give below. It would
have been a stronger document if it had
held up the government bankin sys
tem as necessary to take tbe place of
the national and state banks, which it
proposes to do away with, which we all
agree must be done away with. The
address is eimply the best thought of a.
handful of men who happen to be now
on the committee, their opinions being
worth no more than the opinions of an
equl number of men In the party who
have as carefully studied the issnes of
the day.
THE ADDRESS.
The union of the leaders of the old
parties under Grover Cleveland nt
John Sherman has forced down the
volume of the circulating medium to
the single gold standard, thereby en
hancing the purchasing power of monev
and depreciating tho price of all the
products of labor, as well as the earn
ings of wage workers. The oollcv
promised by the campaign promises of
the Republican and Democratic parties
to restore silver to the place it ( ccuoied
as a money metal previous to the crime
of 1873 has been used to consummate
that iniquity. The tactics of deceiving
the people by sham Issues, which have
been so successful in the past, will be .
employed to maintain the gold standard
and retire greenbacks. The British
policy of a single gold standard system
of finance is contrary to a principle of
American independence, therefore we
are opposed to any international con
ference with foreign nations to regulate
the financial policy of this countrv. but
favor a financial system that is distinct
ively American. The issue is made by
the declaration in tbe Omaha platform
In favor of the free coinage of gold and
silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, and the
issuance of standard.'money, exclusively
by the government without the inter
vention of banks.
Other reforms demanded bv the Oma
ha platform are not less meritorious be
cause tne old parties have thrown off
the mask and made known their pur
pose to enslave the people by money
contraction. A declaration in favor of
the free and unlimited coinage of both
gold and silver at the ratio of 16 to 1.
and the direct issue by the government
of legal tender standard paper money,
redeemable in debts and taxes, and of
sufficient volume to meet the legitimate
needs of our growing population and in
crease in business, and which 6hallbe '
sufficient to restore and maintain stabil
ity and general prices, would meet the
Issue presented by the gold combination.
The object of that combine Is the main
tenance of the gold standard adopted at
the extra session of congress, tho In
crease of the bonded debt, the retire
ment of legal tender money issued by
the government and the surrender to
private corporations of the power of tho
government to regulate the volume of
the circulating medium and maintain
its etnbility.
"Both the old parties will present
tbe tariff and other issues during the
campaign that they are In avor of the
contraction which, by their united
action they have pursued for the last
twenty years, and tney will be for or
gainst any and all Issues which thev
suppose will givebera the most votes,
bt when they secure the power they
will use it in the future as they have
done in the past, In the interest of the
gold combination.
We denounce the issue of boods in
time of peaca as an act of treason and
usurpation unequalled in the history of
civilized government. They propose
to drown the outcries of a plundered
people with a sham battle over the tariff
so that capitalists, corporations, nation
al banks, rings, trusts, watered stock,
the demonetization of silver and the
usurers may be lost sight of. They pro
pose to sacrifiae our homes, wives and
children on the altar of Mammon, to
destroy the multitude In order to secure
corruption funds from the millionaires."
H. h. Panbeneck. Chairman Execu
tive Com.
A GANG OF PAP3U0KERS AND PAR
ASITES.
Editor Calhoun comments with not a
little pertinency and force on some
characteristic administration doings
in which he himself had an interest.
The facts according to The Herald are
after this wise:
"Cy Parker who has just ben ap
pointed postmaster at Fullerton was a
strong and outspoken supporter ol
Meiklejohn, the ltepublican candidate
in whose interest Dr. Keiper was sold
out and defeated for congress tn a Dem
ocratic district. Not only this, but
haying won a bet of a wheelbarrow ride
on the election, he embullished the
vehlole with the inscription. 'Cleve
land and Melklejohn," lniblg letter. He
had the picture taken of himself sitting
In the bsrrow, and the World-Herald
printed it a day or two ago with full
and appropriate context. Having had
such a magnificent ride, Parker should
now be required to take a walk.
When uin are refused poetollloe In
the First district because they support
ed tbe Damocratio candidate for con
grcs. and other men have them bestow
ed in the Third district bcaue they
supported the Republican candidate, 1
the common maot iV-mocraUU liable
to become confuted between duty and
pohry, and aot know which way to turn.
The gang of pp sucker and parasf va
which pro'" to resresi-nl the admin
istration la Nebraska, and which de
m ti control tt ptroni;, t fast
bringing tt Into contempt aud d trust
among men whose ruling political mo
tive 1 adherence to principle and
ho first tasltnct t decency,
OUR 0AU8E IS ALABAMA,.
February N, m the iVoplo party
and tha body know a Jeff'rtoolaa
l-m.fat met a Alarum lu at
eonvvattai. It wm aot A fu!o, for
bith blUt ire lor the m otjt'ot, and
with on tptrlt flgMt'y; the Cleveland
Jons hrasd f UnnM-iacy.
Ti e Hrpublkaa party Is not In It, t
ept to tura tt black vot and uauatk
over ta the ballot t.. stuffing Jo
gang. The eoovtot tf the p..ple
acralaapxl Capt Kolb with; g?t
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