Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-04
"IN ALL rHlNGs. CHARITY"


less contest precipitated under the in
spiration of greedy lawyers and ambi-
tious leaders.
The defiance of constitutional restric-
tions and the violent denunciation Of the
supreme court have kindled spirit OF
anarchy and lawlessness which has
placed Nebraska on a plane with Louisi-
ana and South Carolina.
A striking proof Of this law-defying
spirit may be found in the reckless ut
terances Of papers whose editors assume
to voice the bone and sinew of the toll
ers on the farm, when in fact they are
trying to in Huence the popular mind by
seditious talk by which they expect TO
impress upon the farmers that they are
intensely in sympathy with their cause
A few days ago the paper edited by
Burrows who imagines that he will go
down in history as II great revolutionary
hero, published the following incendiary
appeal:
If we are TO come to force, the brawny
sons OF soil, whose homes are on the prairles,
and whose honest labor makes this state
what IL is, will make their muscle felt in the
contest. Before the storming of the Tuiler-
les Mirabeau sent TO Marseilles this message: :
"Send me thousand men who know how to
die,n And the men came, dusty and travel
stained, but every man with patriotism in
his heart and his life in his hand.
DO the vile villains who by fraud con-
spiracy and treachery are striving to thwart
the will of the people-who are using sena-
tors as their tools, and courts and laws and
constitutions as their facile instruments
want to drive patient but outraged people to
the same desperate extremityi We warn
thew now to beware.
Burrows has evidently been reading
up on the taking of the Bastile and the
beheading of Louis XVI and the behead-
ing of Marie Antoinette and other Bour-
bon aristocrats by the red-capped and
bloody mob that startled and shocked
the civilized world by tho reign of
terror. How any sane man could see
any parallel between the French revolu-
movement in America in 1890 we fail to
comprehend.
In the wake of Bellweather Burrows a
whole brood of monomaniacs has broken
loose with fiery declamations and furious
denuncations of everything and every
body without rhyme or reason. We only
have space to cite one of a number to
show to what extremes these self-consti-
tuted Spokesman for the farmers alli-
ance party have gone. The Custer
County Beacon contains the following
| editorial in its last ISSUE:
There is no doubt in the minds of the peo
| pie as to who, in justice, should be governor
| of Nebraska. John II. Powers was duly
elected on the 4th Of last November, and il
| all equity should have his seat That there
were frauds Of the blacklist type practiccd il
| Omaha and elsewhere has been brought
out in evidence. Knowing this the true-blue
Independents have sought to do their duty
but if all the fiery fiends of the Internal re
gions had been turned loose at once they
could not have met more desperate or def
ant opposition. All the thieves, thugs ant
political mountebanks of Omaha and Lin
coin, backed by saloon swag, bagnio boodl,
and corporation cormorants, regardless O
| party, together with a venal daily
press, have hurled their weigh
/
bolical anti fendish effort to beat dowr
| Justice, pervert law, and seat II man in III,
executive chair who has no legal claim upoi
the Office, neither by popular consent no
by right of citizenship. A mock suprem
court lends itself to the obstructionists, an'
attempts to dictate terms to the. legislature
If the supreme court is TO throw the screen o
protection around the assassins of justice
l a - l.,
partisan dictator rather than an interpreto
of constitutional law, where are the people u
look for justicel Whatever the final outcom
may be, the people have not been deceived
The G. o. p's will be buried so deeply at tn
coming election that it will not require con
test to determine the result.
And this horrible jargon from pape
that proclaims itself the exponent an,
champion of the alliance. Now the funda
mental principles OF the alliance as off
cially declared are:
| To labor for the education of the agricu
tural classes in the science of economic gov
ernment in strictly non-partisau spirit;
endorse the motto, SIN things essential, unity
and in all things, charity" to develop a be
terstate, mentally, morally, socially and fnar
cially; to create better understanding fc
sustaining civil officers and maintaining LAY
and order; to constantly strive 20 secure en-
tire harmony and good will among all MAI
kind and brotherly love among ourselves
to suppress all unhealthy rivalry and selfs
ambition; to exercise charity toward Offer
ders; to construe words and deeds in the
most favorable light, granting honesty
purpose and good intentions to others
What a marked contrast between pre-
fession and practice! SIN all things
charity"-excepting in everything tina
relates to people who differ with yo
politically. ''Cunstruing words an
deeds in their most favorable light
by twisting and turning every wor
that anybody utters and purposely mag
nifying every deed into monstrou
conspiracy and every action into
crime against the rights of the pre-
ducers."
"To create better understanding 70
: sustaining civil officers and maintaining
law and order, ''-and flinging the mo-
, infamous inuendoes against the judges
our highest legal tri bunal, charging the
: with selling out and dubbing them g
mock supreme court, organized to thro'
protection around the assassins of jus
tice."
, | And all this comes from the insane