THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
DECEMBER IS, 1901
A UNION OF FORCES
llr. Houston 1)1 cusur Present Condition
and Outline m Vlmn for Faturts
Action r '
Editor Independent: Every one
who has been like myself a member of
the people's party since its organiza
tion is exceedingly anxious, and de
sirous that now, at this supreme crisis.
It should do that whicn is right, and
at the same time most expedient from
a political point of view.
PRESENT CONDITIONS.
Tne democratic party is in a state
of absolute chaos. A most bitter con
test is going on between the two fac
tions for the control of the organiza
tion, with the chances larg !y in favor
of the reorganizers. There can be no
harmonious agreement as to platform
or nominations.
The republican party is more or less
divided on the questions of revision
of the tariff, of trusts, and insular
policy.
The people's party as to organization
Is in a moribund condition. "Fusion
ists" and "middle-of-the-roaders'.' have
been fighting each other and with a
bitterness highly reprehensible. Some
have gone back t the democratic par
ty; some to the republican party, and
others further on to the socialists. We
have been betrayed by prominent lead
ers in each faction, and hope is dying
out in the ranks.
The labor organizations which have
heretofore divided their vote between
the old parties have been slowly com
ing to the conclusion that the ballot
may prove more effective than the
strike in righting wrongs. In my
own state for the first time the miners
made some nominations for congress
and the state legislature.
The socialist taking advantage of the
lull in populist preaching, pushed to
the front the principles they hold
In common with the populists and so
largely increased their vote.
Now in the midst of all this un
rest, agitation, and struggle populist
principles have triumphed and are
triumphing.
We demanded the free coinage of
silver and its addition to the cur
rency. The financial leaders hooted
at the idea, but still went on with the
coinage of silver until on the 1st day
of October, 1902, the treasury report
counted as cash $506,545,711.20 in sil
ver, and this silver dollar the bullion
value of which is only 33 1-3 cents is
on a parity with the gold dollar all
the world over.
We demanded "more money and less
misery" and the bankers, in council
met at New Orleans last month, took
up the populist cry in spite of the
fact that the United States leads as a
gold producing country, and is coin
ing about $3,000,000 of silver every
month.
We predicted the trusts, and the
Hurt So Badly Was
Nearly Crazy.
Had no Sleep Could
Hardly Lie Down.
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trusts have come, which far from the
purpose of their creators establish the
practicability and advisability of government,-ownership
of certain indus
tries. . i
We demanded government owner
ship of railroads and coal mines. The
brains of the country have conceded
the one as the best repressive measure
as to trusts, and the best means of
protection to the people against the
tyranny of corporate power while as
to the other Hill of New York with
his hand upon the public pulse fi-ched
that plank from the fore-front of the
populist platform to make it a win
ning measure in the democratic plat
form of that great state. Had the
mercury fallen on the first of Novem
ber last to the freezing point it would
have won. The Post of Cincinnati dur
ing tne late anthracite coal strike said,
"This struggle is making whole regi
ments of populists."
In brief, the whole trend of public
sentiment, not only as to municipali
ties, but also as to the nation at large,
is toward "public ownership of public
utilities" toward the separation of
the state and the individual and which
is the heart's core of populist doc
trine. In view of these conditions very
briefly stated there is great encour
agempnt to the populists to organize
and take the field.
HOW TO DO IT.
First, we must bring about com
plete harmony at home. We cannot
send out any invitations to strangers
until we have set our own house in or
der. To this end we must hold an ex
perience meeting with a love feast in
view must forget all the mean things,
whether true or not, we have said
about each other, and throw them be
hind our backs must proclaim a gen
eral amnesty and invite the vilest
sinner to return. Each must meet the
other in the spirit of largest conces
sion, and everything be done to revive .
the spirit of 1892 when nearly two
millions of honest votes were cast
for General Weaver.
Having put ourselves in this frame
of mind and spirit the work of organi
zation, in my opinion, should be in
itiated by a joint call, signed by the
chairman of the national executive
committees of the two factions of our
party, for a meeting not only of the
committees, but of populists general
ly who are willing to help by thought
or act in the organization of the par
ty, and further let it be indicated
by this call that representatives of la
bor organizations, Bryan democrats,
so-called, socialists and others who
wish to co-operate with the populists
in this movement will not be excluded.
At this meeting a plan of organi
zation, full, thorough, and complete,
should be outlined, determined upon
and carried into effect as far as pos
sible. In addition to this the policy
and purpose of the party should be
determined as far as is in the power
of such a meeting and this policy
and purpose should be made known
and recommended by a strong address
to all pcpulists and members of other
organizations who may or are likely
to co-operate with us.
Now, if this letter is not already too
long. I want to make a few suggesiions
both as to the organization and pol
icy of the party.
First, as of prime importance, a pop
ulist paper should be put in the hands
of as many voters as possible of all
parties. If in no other way a fund
should be created by some means and
this distributed among leading populist
papers to be expended i sending pa
pers to lists of voters, the names and
addresses of whom must be supplied
by the various sub-committees in ev
ery state. The press is the greatest of
all agencies for making votes.
Secondly, as to policy, let it be plain
ly indicated that populists have given
up all hope of accomplishing any last
ing reform through co-oneration or fu
sion with either of the old parties on a
national ticket. It is evident that
the drift of the democratic leaders of
the south is toward an alliance with
the democrats of the northeastern and
central states, which will result in the
nomination for president of Cleveland
yes, even Cleveland, or some one
representing him, as Olney. This
would give the populists the opportun
ity to declare again for a union of the
south and west against the plutocratic
east, which so unified the Je-ffersoniaii
democrats of the south and the Lincoln
republicans of the west in the Weaver
campaign. In order to avail ourselves
of this coming situation it must be
understood before hand yes. now
that the populists, while asking the
assistance of all the lovers of their
country, are still in the fiVld for a
straie-ht fight against the money pow
er. Under such a banner I believe it
is possible for the people's party to
regain the position it held in 1892 and
finally to triumph.
A. C. HOUSTON.
Pickaway, W. Va.
The smallest school apportionment
warrant ever sent into Webster coun
ty by the fusionists was $3,385. Mickey
carried the county this year. And the
warant this December Is $2,556.90.
This cuts off $828.10 which could be
used In adding another month of
school in 23 districts. Assuming that
each stay-at-home populist shucked 30
bushels of corn In the time It would
have taken him to go and vote, and
allowing 3 cents a bushel, this slump
in the apportionment wipes out the
earnings of 920 stay-at-homes.
A Decade of American Finance
Jay Cooke has contributed an ar
ticle, entitled "A Decade of American
Finance," to the North American Re
view. The first part treats of the his
tory of the national banking business,
and the second tells the story of the
struggles to build the Northern Pa
cific railroad. Says Mr. Cooke: "The
government gave to the Northern Pa
cific Railroad company 47,360,000 acres
of land, 12,800 acres per mile of rail
road in Wisconsin and Minnesota, and
25,000 acres per mile in Dakota, Mon
tana, Idaho, and Washington. The
sales of these lands ought practically
to have paid for the construction of
the railroad which earned them." Yet
today that road claims it has "in
vested" the sum of $06,252 per mile of
line and in the fiscal year ended June
30, 1900, drew from the shippers and
passengers who used it over thirty mil
lion dollars gross earnings in order to
secure a "fair return" upon the capital
"invested" capita, which, according
to Mr. Cooke, was given to the road by
a foolish congress pretending to repre
sent a still more foolish people.
It will be a great F'lock to some
republican historians to know that
Mr. Cooke virtually admits that there
was a "crime of 73." He is by no
means a "free silver lunatic" In fact,
is opposed to free silver now, but he
says: "The question of the continu
ance of the silver on the old basis
might have been appropriately dis
cussed when silver was demonetized
in 1873. . . . This left the currency of
the country without a silver dollar
(Be careful, Mr. Cooke, or the heaa of
the Lincoln Daily Star's drivel de
partment will get you!) and lessened
by about one-half the money which
the people used and depended on to
pay their debts with. Had the title
of the bill indicated that it proposed
to legislate the silver dollar out of
the United States, it could never have
passed.
"The enormous discoveries of gold
in our country and in other parts of
the world have filled the vacuum of
legal tenders. Otherwise this wanton
and foolish destruction of the legal
tender character of the silver dcllar
would have been disastrous indeed.
The immediate effect of it was to de
stroy or lessen the abilitv of the deb
tor to discharge both foreign and do
mestic debts. Fortunate indeed it was
for the countrv that the wiping out of
so large a portion of our legal tenders
was supplemented by gold discoveries."
Republican "redemption" by Dietrich
and "rescue" by Mickey means a loss
of $806.83 in Seward county. Her last
school apportionment warrant is that
much smaller than the smallest one
ever sent her by fusion state officers.
Congressman Stark Approves
Editor Independent: While I al
ways see much to commend in each is
sue of The Independent, I want to
especially commend your article in
the 4th inst. issue on "Unions and Mi
litia." It is patriotic, and sensible in
a marked degree and it is a matter of
congratulation that a newspaper of my
state mrkes the clearest statement of
a correct militia policy that has come
under my observation.
W. L. STARK.
House of Representatives, Washing
ton, D. C, Dec. 7, 1902.
Back in 1S97 Jefferson county gave
a small plurality for Judge Sullivan,
and the fusionists succeeded in cap
turing part of the county offices. Then
they began to get apathetic, so that
bv this years "our man Mickey"
lacked but little pf carrying-the coun
ty by 500. Jefferson county's smallest
apportionment warrant under fusion
state administration was $4,423.76, or
exactly -$1,021.71 more than the one
for this December. That would pav a
month's salary for thirty $3." teachers.
Republican incompetency comes high
but they rather like it down in Jefferson.
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