The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-08-17
THE rEsoLuIIoSs OF THE NEBRASKA
THIRD PARTY.

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arise between workmen and employers both
shell be compelled TO submit the matters in
disnr,a 70 the arbitration to State Board
Of Arbitrators.
Another demanded that the pay to work
men and workwomen shall be the same.
third demanded the abolition Of the
State militia.
When the Third party held its great pow
WOW at st. Louis last spring the world was
treated to view OF it's component elements
gathered there. Along with representatives,
of the labo. unions and Farmers Alliances
we had woman's rights delegates and negro
delegates. all harmonizing in brotherhood
and sisterhood. We can truly say that we
know of no such gathering as that which
N Jet at ST. Louis since Sir John Fallstsf
mArsballed his command of Mouldy,
Shadow, Wart. Feeble and Bull Calf.
It is very plain that the Nebraska Con-
vention was dominated by the sisters work
| ing in union with the labor representatives..
| That remarkable resolution demanding the
same pay for workwomen as for workmen
| plainly shows that the sisters had their
| finger in the pie. and the fact that 1t was
passed shows that they were strong enough
TO compel attention TO their gentle voices.
We are safe therefore in concluding that
whatever II may be elsewhere the Peoples
party of Nebraska is dominated by union
between organized labor and fascinating
ladies'. We would have it understood that
we not only do not oppose the ladies re-
ceiving the wages of men if they do mems
work. but that they should receive every
consideration which is worthy of the purest
age of chivalry.
Apart from the merit or demerit Gas the
reader may choose to view IT, of the resolu-
tions adopted, what strikes as most forcibly
about them is the absence of all Farmers
Alliance doctrine in them.
There is no Farmers Alliance doctrine in
the proposition to pay workwomen as much
as wofkmcn are paid they care nothing
about authorization in strikes, and they
are generally rather partial to the
INTELLECTUALLY .hey are as much
as Indifferent 10 it. is it possible
that the farmers of Nebraska take no stock
in the Third party, or are they showed un-
der" by the labor unions in alliance with
the representatives of the fair SEX The
latter may be the case, but we very much
suspect that the laws of logic and common
sense have begun to teach the farm
ers Of Nebraska that there was
never amore unnatural and impossible union
than the combination which it is attempted
10 make between farmers and members Of
mechanical labor unions. If there were
ever two clements dramatically opposed TO
each other it is these two.
Mr.. Samuel Gompers, the president Of the
American Federation of Labor, in page o.
North American Review for July, says that
TO support the Peoples party under the be-
liet that it is Labor party is to act under
misapprehension. It Is not and cannot, in
the nature of its make up, be Labor party.
or even one in which the wage-workers will
find their haven. Composed as the Peoples
party is mainly of employing farmers. with
out regard 10 the interests of the employed
farmers of the country districts OF the me-
chanics and lsborers of the industrial CEN
tres there must of necessity be a divergence
of purposes, methods and interests"
For example:
The farmer wants the prices of agricultu-
raj products high; organized labor wants
them low.
The farmer wants wages low and hours
long; organized labor wants wages high and
hours short
The farmer wants agricultural implements |
low; organized labor wants them high, and |
SO on to the end of the list.
The man. therefore, that conceived !
the idea Of constituting political party |
out of a union between these two
elements has no doubt added to his !
occupations an attempt TO square the |
circle, invent perpetual motion and mix oil |
and water. He can accomplish either of |
these when he can unite the farmer and the /
iaborer IN permanent political party that !
aims to specially promote the interests Pc |
culiar to each. True politics consists, of |
course, in a union of all moderate men |
where the interests of every class and sec /
ton is fairly considered with reference to /
any other interest and even-handed justice |
is melted out to all. But the fad of the day |
is to get up a political party which |
shall aim at pressing forward the /
supposed interests of one set OF men 1
without any regard whatever to the
interests of other men into collision with /
which the first interests come. and the
preachers of the new doctrines say they
must have a political party in the interests
of those who want higher wages and an
other political party in the interest of those
who want lower wages. When these two
political parties become blended into one
single political party working harmoniously
and smoothly together we shall really see
the day Of the lion and the lamb lying down
peacefully together
We therefore conclude that the Nebraska
farmers have seen that the attempt to consti-
tute u political party out of the heteroge-
nous elements sought to be brought to-
gether in the Third party. is the vainest eff
fort ever conceived by crack Drained en-
thusiast and that they took little or no part
in the Third party convention.
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SOME THOUGHTS FOR OUR FARMERS.
The State Farmers Alliance is now in
session in this city, and it is therefore
present few thoughts'to them
on tha r,Olifica1 animation as-oo;.u. :.