OCTOBER 20, 100
PAGE i
tX6ff Nebraska. Independent
awhile! Give the people's party a
chance!"
Swallowlns a Platform .
-in this campaign of 1904. Theodore
Roosevelt might safely shallow Par
ser's platform without the slightest
fear 01 an atiacn. o-. acme 0v,. . .
and ParKer might' take off his ',
.i. - v. thtnve SSTld WaltZ bairlc'UI1
footed all over Roosevelt s platform
and be in no danger of running a
splinter in his foot. So fai as matured
purposes are concerned, so far as
foundation principles are concerned,
the two old parties are
; 'Two minds with, but a single
thought, v . f
Two hearts that beat af one.
"The party which I have the honor
to represent In this campaign is the
only one which stands for Jeff ersonlan
principles; is the only one which
waees war unon the principles of the
republican party; is the only one
which plainly, distinctly and positively
tells the neoDlftv wherein it differs . in
esse; lirc the party, of
Roo itelt. -- - : --f.
"J avc done this, so full, so often
and p recently that I need not do so
ags f tonight. - Study our creed for
. yoyj elves then vote as your .heart,
int Igence and conscience direct ; we
wi? not fear results. Our -appeal is
m. J to reason not to prejudice Or
p?: Ion. Our argument is based upon
fa?., 3, upon; well-known conditions;
n':f upon speculations or theories. We
sL not Dound for any Eldorado, any
U plan dreamland, where all the wo-
' i i are angles and men are things
fi ,ne. No; our purpose is more pro
u p and practical.' We want to keep
h? r feet upon the earth and; dealing
f' h men and women as they are,
',' jrk out reforms in which every
an who is willing to pay the price
I working for it shall have a fair
lare of the -wealth of this land:
, The Rlaht to Labor "
ft
.J Sj Every man shall have the right
f i labor on the" earth and niake his
dl .iving out of the common estate, or
Jhall have work for himself, and not
for. a master, in some other avoca
lion. Every man shall have the equal
.protection of the law, and no more;
f f equal advantages under the law," and
no more. In other words, we mean to
J have legislation recognize the fact that
,1 f God made the world for all of us; and
A not fqr a few cf us. No man shall
draw umore from the common stock
-'$jt4fis-v-.represented by the i : greater
-' sa-tc"tf"WA.JUhoc-jpr- the greater
value of his: work. MonouulTAaAl
not be allowed to oppress the living
and then transmit the wrong and the
oppression to future generations, - i
f "The trust shall not be allowed to
dictate the price Either of labor or
produce, but that price must.be fixed
by fair competition in the open mar
Jket, or we must establish co-operation
- based upon the natural law .of human
brotherhood. The corporation shall
be made to surrender it3 oppressive
privileges and to pay its fair propor
tion of the taxes, have its franchise
assessed under the law of , eminent
domain and honest payment made;
and its powers exercised aft sr ward by
the government for the equal good
of us all.
"The mill-owner shall be made to
- - moderate his appetite for gain. lie
must be made to liberate the children
of tender years whose little lives he
is grinding up r into dividends; he
must grant shorter hours cf labor: he
must grant the safety of those, who
work for him by the adoption of every
lire-saving invention and every im
proved sanitary regulation. He must
recognize the fact that as long as
capital is combined labor has the. right
to unite, and that the struggle of the
labor classes to retain in their own
hands a greater share of what their
hands produce is just as natural' and
more in accordance with fairness and
justice than the efforts ol the com
bined capitalists to increase those for
tunes whose origin .. was legislative
favoritism and whose existence repre
sents governmental injustice.
,-- Should be Cc-operatlon
"Instead of a competition and con
flict between labor and capital there
should oe co-operation and concord
Capital is not to be hated for itself.
Labor produced it; labor is. always pro
ducing it. As long as each day's pro
duct is consumed.' and we never have
the accumulated surplus called capital
we can never be more than barbarians,
The comfortable clothing, the com
fortable house which every working-
man deserves and should have, is not
labor. It is capital.- -
. "Whatever labor produced last year
and has not consumed is capital. Why
then make our war upon that whlc
the workman himself created? The
labor of the past, stored up and in
vested, represents the entire visible
wealth of the world excepting the land
in its natural state. Without the ac
cumulation of labor Into capital there
could be no leisure class; therefore no
literature, no fine arts, none of the
music which inspires the world, none
of the thought which leads the minds
men to higher ideals; none or tne
comforts, luxuries and eiegances oi
life.
"I believe in private property. The
little girl playing with hei doll,-fondling
it, kissing" it, talking childish
prattle to it, dressing it and making it
ever more beauitful, If she can, repre
sents the material Instinct, of the hu
man race. The man's instinct for
home, a home of his own, is almost
as strong as universal. Tin beast of
the field, the birds of the air struggle
for what is theirs the nest their mar
velous skill and industry built, the
caves which they found and appro
priated, the bed of 'eaves or straw or
rushes which v they made for them
selves. , 4
"Let one bird or beast invade the
home of. another and there is a fight
Mnvtf Man Ha Advanced
"Man' affvanWwifi
civilization can be shown in"
of lightning flashes which reveal the
chanees he has made in his home
From the bark hut in the woods to
the log cabin in the cleared field, and
the mansion in the town, man im
proves himself. The whole weight of
civilization rests upon ; the"" home its
inspiration is the home." Patriotism in
its last analysis is the love of home.
And you love it for the reason that it
is your home yours exclusively; yours
to lock the door of ?nd say to all the
world, 'Keep, out, this is mine; ; here
is my castle, here is the fireside by
which sit. sheltered from the outer
storm, with my wife's arm around my
heck and my -did sitting on my knee
mine, mine, not Smith's, not Brown's
nor everybody s but mine, just as my
wife is mine and my child is mine
"The party whicn I represent does
not think it can do its work in one
day. or in one campaign. It does not
delude itself with ain imaginations,
But It does say that all reforms must
start somewhere. No matter how
small th,e beginning, if it is right,
it is not to be despised. A million
acorns may fall to the ground and
never produce an oak ; but whenever
you gaze upon the majestc oak the
royal tree which has esisted the storms
of a' hundred years, which shelters the
birds Of the air amid its boughs and
the beasts of the field beneath its
shil5ijemember that there was a
time wnen ttiT-tfi.nag:atness
ana Deauty oi tne towering, moo&
branched oak were held in the" dainty
little cup which nature made for the
acorn.
Work for the Future !
To the remotest regions of the
earth have penetrated the organized
hosts of Christianity, rear'ng temples
wherever the human family makes a
name, ana as ages go it nas not been
so long since the enormous energies of
Christianity were bound up in the
ives J of twelve - moneyless, homeless
wanderers in Judea.
Let no man be ashamed of being
n the minority. Let him be ashamed
only in being in the wrong.
To the extent that we allow our
iberties encroached upon, we have
been cowards; renegades to " principle,
recreants to duty. We can restore
our government tonight principles if
we win, out we have no time to lose.
Liberty, civil liberty as we know
it, did not happen by accident. Your
ballot, your right to vote was not nicked
up in the highway. Every privilege we
enjoy nas been wrested from the op
pressor, cost tne lives of brave men
uas ceen arencnea with marytr blood
vvnat we can Christian civijization
was once :the protest of a desDised
minority, the vision of men who were
m advance of their times.
io me oramary man -the roueh
block of marble, just from the quarry,
is a diock or marble, and It is noth
ing more. But the SCUlDtOr. lorldTlS
J- . . i . - . ' a
upon tne same rude block, sees an
angel within the stone, and deftly, with
ms cnisei ne wonts and works till
that which in his mind is bodied forth
in the stone, and the world possesses
an Apollo, a Greek slave, a Venus
'a thing of beauty and a joy forever.
in line manner there can never be
good r government, wise government
just laws, happy conditions till some
statesman conceives the ideal and
works with all his soul and heart and
mind, to bring forth into actual ex
istence that which h? has conceived
On no Temporary Issue
"The people's party has not founded
itself upon any temporary issue, any
trivial grievance. It has linked its for
tunes with the eternal principles of
human brotherhood and undying pur
pose on the part of the people tha
ibertyand equallity shall not forever
be trodden under foot. No aeieats
can discourage us. No ridicule or abuse
or misrepresentation can daunt us.
Trova. the passion and the prejudice of
to-day we appeal to the sober second
thought of to-morro? . Looking neither
to the right nor the jteft, we go march
ing on, proud to do battle for the
sacred principles of popular self-gov
ernment. , - .
"Talk to me of reward? What more
do I need than that having unfurled
the standard of Jeffersonian demo
cracy in its darkest hour, when those
who had promised to die for It had
deserted? It is an honor to cham
pion a great cause, no matter how
heavy the task may be. There is glory
in defending the right, no matter how
goes the tide of success. There is
inspiration in wonting for the plain
DeoDle when they cheer you on as
they are cheering me.
'Jeffersonians! Your flag was pulled
down at St. Louis, and you were left
without leaders. I have picked up
your flag from the ground where it
lay. and I call upon you to rally- to
It. Refuse, and you have done vio
nenraJ5Qjjr.Dwn Sense of right. Re
iuse. ana you xxavtr- auue
principle. Rise above prejudice, rlsetoH
the full " courage or your convleuons,
and we at once create a robust opposi
tion ta the republican party kl which
will drag it down to overwhelming
defeat, restore the Tule of the people
and bring back to us once more, the
rule, of nobly patriotic mc.n under wise
and equitable laws." V u ?
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Of America Use Pc-ru-na for All
Catarrhal Diseases.
Price, Measure OL.nd Vti.lue
Editor Independent: The contribu
tion of A. F. Allen and editorial note
appended to it in a recent . issue
prompts me to submit the following as
to that perplexing tissue of terms
"price," Jmeasure," "value." Each of
these terms, logically, should have its
appropriate annex with one of the oth
er two as its subject and correlative;
but if applied to the other is nearly as
impertinent and impredicable as as
cription of cubical contents to a shad
ow. Thus: Value, we find to be essen-
tial, intrinsic, inherent, but shifting
and generally unstable,; ard this is so
whether the appraisement of value re
sults from actual or what, may here be
termed artificial conditions, and is the
same in the bedlam; chicane of Wall
street as in the orderly marts of legi
timate trade. Legitimate value Is de
pendent upon the sole conditions of
supply and demand, and, in strictness,
can be measured by only itself i. e.,
value for, value, which latter is bar
;
Woman's Benevolent Association of
, Cntcapo,
Mrs, Henrietta A. S. Marsh, President -Woman's
Benevolent. Association, of
821 Jackson Park Terrace, Woodlawn,
Chicago, 'III.; says:
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at last secured the Tight medicine and
kept steadily improving; Within three
weeks I was fully restored." Henrietta
A. S. Marsh. .' v- ; v
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c&iarrh in all phases and stages. ,
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be pleased to give youjiis valuable ad
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Address Pr. Hartman, "President of
TheHar' ; " . 'nmhus.O.
Thefatall9'ra4nflnnous fraud
of all money that in:its -maTfcrvira
appreciable commodity quality are that
it continually tends ; and by - intent
seeks tg effect in every transaction of
mere sale and purchase a -barter ex-j
change in which the party who passes
this money has an unconscionable and
monstrous advantage over the other;
as. ' to monopolize and augment the
purchasing power of such money, are
but easy achievements of the financial
combination value can ; be measured
only by its equivalent
Price is but the index; or the ex
ponent, of value for the time during
which existing conditions supply and
demand remain unchanged... Price
measures nothing because it continu
ally changes -in its conformity ;to the
instability of value; while the essen
tials of any measure are that it have
deftniteifess and established perma
nenceas the yard-stick or the quart-
cup and now, in this series or trial of
price," "measure," "value," we come
logically in sight of the middle term-
measure which applies itseir to the
price" to just such extent as the .latter
may require, as the dry-goods mer
chant does the yard-stick to his un
rolled bolt Of cloth that Is to be clipped
to supply the purchasing customer,
The per-yard value of the cloth may
vary from time to time as it will, but
the yard-stick: everlastingly holds its
definite length of 36 inches and each
of the latter of three barley-corns-
no more, no less.
This little analysis of the much dis
cussed triplicate of "price," "measure,"
"value," may help some one to a more
satisfactory conception of their rela
tion to each other and as a triune
whole to the every-day business con
cerns of social contract and " inter
change.: Certain it is that no 'great
feat of reasoning, analysis or any oth
er process of exposition ought to be re
quired in the court of mere plain
square-toed commonsense, to convict
the "commodity-money theory as one
whose central Inspiration and intent
is of turpitude not less heinous than
"gross fraud and cheating."
In the days of colonial simplicity,
and when the limited business of trans
fers from one to another was largely
effected by barter actual exchange of
one thing for another, and before the
emerged from theuUSthiTHC
pit of greed in those former days HiB . - - .
evil of commodity-money, so far as -adopted
then was but trifling as com
pared with Its overwhelming aggrava
tion at present.
The people's party might, witn
healthful wisdom, as well as just tact,
exalt to greater "paramountcy" the
greenback doctrine of holy old Peter
Cooper.
ROBERT M. MCKEE.
Greenville, Tenn.
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