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never show how the moneyed man can
profit himself by crushing out the man
or the class that owes him.
They forget that money is the sole
thing , in all this busy world , for which
men toil and scramble that can never do
j its owner any good until it leaves him.
The mono } ' power as depicted by the
disordered imagination of the commun
ist would be the very impersonation of
powerlessness. If all the money in all
the world should be given to the re
ceiver of the political assets of Jones ,
Allen & Teller , at Chicago , upon the
condition that Coin Harvey should
never let go of a cent of it , the propa
r ganda of the money fallacies would be
bankrupt in the midst of billions.
Money must leave its possessor before
I , it can confer upon him the slightest
benefit. Money must be exchanged for
.some desired thing before any satisfac
tion comes from money. No power ex
ists in money except that evolved from
its constant activity and use. That
power is capital. Capital is money
used in business for the purpose of bring-
in more money. Capital is money in
its procreative fonn. Let us have more
power of money in Nebraska. But
whenever money bribes a legislator , a
juryman , a sheriff , or a court , damn the
money power , just'as when we have a
flood of rain you should denounce water
power.
Never credit to the power of money
the construction of churches , schools ,
railroads , mills , factories and the devel
opment of the material welfare of the
globe. Find only those instances where
money has been used for corrupting
mankind and then , damn the money
power. Never show by analysis , where ,
when , how or why men owning money
have conspired together to oppress and
destroy all those classes who might
borrow money.
Always prove that the owners of
money are like the old fellow who kept
tavern and wished everybody else might
die , perish from the earth , so that he
could have all the custom , without com
petition. Populists are particularly and
prayerfully requested to give the plain
people more and plainer pictures of the
money power bogy.
OUT MONEY FKOM THE STATE.
Many years ago , before the soil of Ne
braska had been proven capable of pro
ducing apples , plums , pears , cherries
and other fruits common to this latitude ,
some pioneer pomologists , Masters , Don-
tihoe , Gilmore , Allen , Furnas , Grinuell
and others , fanned a Nebraska horticul
tural society. Those ardent ajid indus
trious friends and promoters of fruit
growing met twice a year. The meet
ings were in January and September.
* *
V If At the former the flavor , keeping , qual
- , * Ifn ity ( and hardiness of the tree ) , of each
kind of apple were discussed. Experi
ences were compared. Careful observa-
tions upon the habit and growth of each
variety were submitted.
At the September meetings , which
were generally held at an orchard
agreed upon , the debates and deductions
were illustrated by the trees and their
fruition.
That ancient organization for encour
aging and promoting the cultivation of
orchards and the production of fruit in
Nebraska did an intelligent , useful and
patriotic work. That organization was
; ho primary cause of every fruit farm
now flourishing in this state. But it sub
sisted and flourished and accomplished
without becoming a charge upon the
public revenues.
Then anil Now.
Then the amateur as well as the adept
in horticulture gave time , experience
and money to the advancement of that
beautiful and satisfying branch of rural
industry. Then for such work no pub
lic funds were demanded. Then dem
onstrating , by cultivation , the value of
Nebraska laud for fruit production was
a work of altruism , freely contributed
to the general welfare. Then the ex
periences , experiments , failures and suc
cesses of pioneer horticulturists were
valuable and precious to new-comers
and neophytes in horticulture. They
were worth much money. They warned
against failures. They showed the way
to successes. But they were furnished
freely and without cost to the tax-payers.
But now after thirty odd years a state
horticultural society demands and se
cures from the state treasury twenty to
twenty-five hundred dollars a year.
Now when orchards abound , when Ne
braska , by her achievements in pomol
ogy has acquired victories in competi
tion with all the other states , at fairs ,
and expositions , the state must forsooth
tap its strong box every year for two
thousand dollars to sustain the state
horticultural society.
Prominent members of that organiza
tion say "we can not do our work with
out tliis appropriation. " What work ?
Who for ?
And if horticulture may have a sub
sidy from the taxes gathered into the
state treasury from all the people and
property of the state , why may not flori
culture also have a bonus ? Agricultiire
gets its annuity from year to year in a
two thousand dollar appropriation to the
state board of agriculture ; the sugar beet
business has been also fed a few thous
ands of dollars from money taken from
all other industries. Where shall state
subsidies , bounties out of the money of
the people , stop ?
Is there any reason why millers , man
ufacturers of raw products into com
modities everywhere in Nebraska should
not be subsidized also ?
Why should men who work in nur
series or sell trees and fruits have taxes
levied for , collected for and given to
them , any more than taxes should be
collected for nucl given to men who
work in blacksmith shops , shoo shops ,
railroads , telegraph and telephone offices 'i
Let the legislature cut off all those
useless appropriations. It is not just to
tax all for the satisfaction and advantage
of a few.
Agriculture is strong , stalwart , ma
ture , successful in Nebraska. It needs
no appropriation to demonstrate such a
.arge and very visible truth. Every
body knows how our fields teem with
corn , wheat , oats and all vegetables
omuion to this latitude when those
fields are properly plowed , tilled and
cared for. No state board of agricul
ture to hold fairs and draw money for
doing so , out of the state treasury , is
needed. Such a board and such an ap
propriation are as unnecessary and fool
ish as a tallow candle to light , up the
sun , or as pouring a bucket of water into
the Missouri river to increase the veloc
ity of its currents.
Stop that leak. It has cost a hundred
thousand dollars first and last and
should now be hermetically sealed.
The same is true as to the annual sti
pend of money to the state horticultural
society. That , too , should be erased ,
obliterated , dried up , forever. Agricul
ture and horticulture in Nebraska have
arrived at an adult age. They are not
mendicants. They are not dependents.
They are robust , strong and indepen
dent. Individually farmers do not get
money from the state. All together the
soil tillers of Nebraska would refuse do
nations from the state ; and the real
owners and workers of this soil get no
benefits from the appropriations which
have been customarily awarded to the
party parasites which prey upon public
funds under whatsoever guise or pre
tense.
The time for economy has arrived.
That man is richest who has the fewest
wants. That state is richest which
makes the fewest unneeded appropria
tions. It is not what a man takes in ,
that makes him a competence ; it is what
he saves. It is not the rational and ne
cessary expenses of the state govern
ment in protecting life , liberty and pro
perty that make high taxes. It is the
paternalism that nourishes a lot of tax-
eating parasites in Nebraska which
makes the burdens of citizenship and
robs the pockets of industry.
COUSeUt f
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OF THE GOV- the governed" as a
EKNEIV principle in free
government s a d -
mits of no application to a people who
know nothing of the principles , systems
and the rule of majorities of which free
governments consist. The only "con
sent" which the inferior races of men
iii the Philippine islands will ever give
in this age to any form of government
will be obtained and maintained by
sheer force by the fear or fact of gun
powder and the bayonet.
