The Wealth makers of the world. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1894-1896, November 08, 1894, Page 7, Image 7
( tnoi. THE WEALTH MAKERS. T ssssassnnnaMsssssnnnnaBaasmi - , PEOPLE'S PLATFORM. Adopted by the Convention at Om p aha Nebraska, July. 4, 1802. Assembled upon the one hundred and sixteenth anniversary ol the Declaration of Independence, the People's Party of America, in their first national conven tion, invoking npon their action the blessings of Almighty God. puts forth in the name, and on behalf of the people of the country, the following preamble and declaration of principles: The conditions which surround us best justify our co-operation; we meet in the miitit nf a. nation brought to the verge of moral, political and material ruin. nninn 1nmina.tee the ballot box. Wl iiukjvm - - 1 the legislatures, the Congress, and touches even the ermine of the bench. The people are demoralised; most of the states have been compelled to isolate the voters at the polling places to prevent universal intimidation or bribery. The newspapers are largely subsidised or muuled; public opinion silenced; business prostrated; our homes covered with mortgages; labor impover ished; and the land concentrating in the hands of the capitalists. The urban workmen are denied the right of organi sation for self-protection; imported pau perised labor beats down their wages; a hireling army, unrecognized by our law, is established to shoot them down: and they are rapidly degenerating into Euro pean conditions. The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossalfortunes for afew, unprecedented in the history of mankind, and the pos sessors of these in turn despise the re public and endanger liberty. From the same prolific womb of governmental in- i justice we breed the two great classes tramps and millionaires. v The national power to create money is appropriated to enrich bondholders; a vast public debt, payable in legal tender currency, has been funded into gold-bearing bonds, thereby adding millions to the burdens of the people. Silver, which has been accepted as coin since the dawn of history, has been de monetised to add to the purchasing pow er of gold, by decreasing the value of all forms of property, as well as human la bor, and the supply of currency is pur posely abridged to fatten usurers, bank rupt enterprise, and enslave industry. A van u wiufumj - - tuum nromniiad on two continents, and it is rapidly taking possession of the world, il not men ana overiurowo at ence it forebodes terrible social convul Glimpses of the World THE ROYAL CHEMIQRAPH EDITION DE LUXE. 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Our subscribers may Ccure the complete k, handsomely bound in half Russia, for onlv $9.00, $2.00 down and 12.00 monthlv until oaid for. The Atlas, charges ceipt of first payment. sions, the destruction ot civilization, or the establishment of an absolute despot ism. We have witnessed for more than a quarter of a century the struggles of the two great political parties for power and plunder, while grievous wrongs have been inflicted upon the suffering people. We charge that the controlling iuflaence dominating both these parties have per mitted the existing dreadful conditions to develop, without serious effort to pravest or restrain them. Neither do they now promise us any substantial reform. They have agreed together to ignore. In the coming cam paign, every issue but one. They pro pose to drown the outcries of a plundered people with the uproar of a sham battle over the tann; so mat capital isu, corpo rations, national banks, rings, trusts, watered stock, the demonetisation of sil ver, and the oppressions of the usurers may all be lost sight of. They propone t. sacrifice our homes, lives and children on the altar of Mammon; to destroy the multitude in order to secure corruption funds from the millionaires. Assembled on the anniversary of the birthday of the nation, and filled with the spirit of the grand generation of men, who estab lished our independence, we seek to re store the government of the Republio to the hands of "the plain people," with whose class it originated. 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While our sympathies as a party of re form are naturally upon the side of every proposition which will tend to make men intelligent, virtuous and temperate, we nevertheless regard these questions im portant as they are as secondary to the great issues now pressing for solution; and upon which not only our individual prosperity, but the very existence of free institutions depends; and we ask all men to first help us to determine whether we are to have a republic to administer, be fore we differ as to the conditions upon which it is to be administered; believing that the forces of reform this day organ ized will never cease to move forward un til every wrong is righted and equal pri vileges established for all the men and women of this country. - We declare, therefore, """""S UNION OF THE FSOPLI. First, That the union of the labor forces of the United States this day con summated, shall be permanent and per petual; may its spiritenter into all hearts for the salvation of the republic and the uplifting of mankind. Second, Wealth belongs to him who creates it; and every dollar taken from industry, without an equivalent, is rob bery. "If any man will not work neither shall he eat." 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We demand that the amount of cir culating medium be speedily increased to not less than f au per capita. we demand a graauatea income tax. V, holiovA that the monev of the country should be kept, as much as pos sible, in the hands ot the people; and hence we demand that all state and na tional revenues shall be limited. to the necessary expenses of the government, economically and honestly administered. We demand tbat postal savings oanxs be established by the government for the safe deposit of the earnings of the people and the facilitation of exchange. TBaNSPOBTATIO. Transportation being a means ot ex change and a publio necessity; the gov ernment should own and operate the railroads in the interest ot the people. The telegraph and telephone, like the postoffice system, being a necessity, for the transmissionof news, should be owned and operated by the government in the interests of the people. LANDS, The land, including all natural re sources of wealth, is the heritage of the people, and should not be monopolized for speculative purposes; and alien owner ship of land should bs prohibitsd. All land now held by railroads and other corporations in excess of their actual needs, and all lands now owned by aliens, should be reclaimed by the gov ernment and held for actual settlers only. RESOLUTIONS. The following resolutions were offered independent of the platform, and were adopted, as expressive of the sentiments of the convention: Resolved, That wedemandafreeballot and a fair count in all elections, and pledge ourselves to secure to it every legal voter without federal intervention, through the adoption by the states of the unperverted Australian secret ballot system. .... Resolved, That the revenue derived from a graduated income tax should be appli ed to the reduction ot the burden of taxa tion now levied upon the domestic in dustries of this couutry. and $1.00 monthly for 5 4? ,2 a Roanlvnll. That wtt DlMlM OOT HHTinO. to fu.tr sod liberal pensions o el-Union soldiers and sailors. RssoUed, Tha,e condemn thsIallsT of protecting American labor under the present system, which opens onr ports to tne pauper ana criminal classes oi vu world, and crowds oat onr wage-earners and ws denounce the present ineffectiTS law against contrast labor, and demand the further restriction ot undesirable immigration. KesolTsd, That ws coraiany sympa thise with the efforts of organised work ingmen to shorter the hours of labor and demand a rigid enforcement of the exist ing sight-hour law on gorernment work, and ask that a penalty clause be added to said law. Resolved, That we regard the main tenance of a large standing army of mercenaries, known as the Pinkerton system, as a menace to our liberties, and we demand its abolition, and wecondemn the recto t invasion of the Territory of Wyoming by the hired assassins ot Plutocracy, assisted by Federal officers. Resolved, That we commend to the thoughtful consideration of the people and the reform press, the legislative sys tem known as the Initiative and Referen dum. Resolved, That we favor a constitu tional provision limiting the office of a president and vice president to one term, and providing for the election ot the senators by a direct vote of the people. Resolved, That weoppose any subsidy or national aid to any private corpora-, tion for any purpose. .. . B. E. Taubeneck, Chairman, Marshall, Illinois. J. H. Turner, Secretary, Georgia. Lawrence McFarland, Secretary, New Vi.b M. C. Rankut, Treasurer, Terre Haute, Indiana. . Our State Platform. We, the People's Indepenpent party of the state of Nebraska, reaffirm the prin ciples laid down in the national platform adopted at Omaha, July 4, 1892. We emphasize the demand for free and un limited coinage of silver and gold at the present ratio 16 to 1. We brand as treason to labor in every field, and to labor in every field, and to the beet inter ests of the whole country, the uncondi tional repeal by congress of the purchas ing clause of the Sherman act. We de mand both state and national laws tor the encouragement and promotion of the irrigation of onr arid and semi-arid lands. - We demand tbat congress shall speedi ly pass a law by which the federal court will be prevented from suspending the operation or a state law at the dictation of corporations. Ws demand a liberal service pension to all honorably discharged union soldiers and sailors of the late war. We declare for municipal ownership ot street cars, gas and electric light plants and water works'. We demand compulsory arbitration ot all controversies between employers and employes. We heartily approve the course of Sen ator William V. Allen and Congressmen W. A. McKelghan and O. M. Kem for their fidelity and loyalty to our entire interests, and we compliment Congress man W. J. Bryan, who, though elected as a Democrat, has given strong support to many of our reform measures. We demand a more economical admin istration of our state government, and a more strict accountability of moneys ap propriated and expended. We reiterate our demand for a maxi mum freiKht rate law or the enforcement of the one now on our statute books. We demand uB amename. our state constitution by the adoption of what are properly known as the initiative and referendum. We demand the enforcement ot the present law for the investment of our permanent school fund as directed, and not through bond investment companies, at a loss to said fund or profit to specu lators and money sharks. We demand that all officers, both stats and county, be paid a reasonable salary, in accordance with the labor to be per formed and the amount of skill required, and that all fees be turned into the gen eral fund for state and county purposes. We commend to the favorable consid eration of the state the building of what is known as the Qulf & Interstate rail road, now under process of construction. We demand that immediate steps be taken for the relief of the drouth sufferers of our state, and that some means be devised to give them employment and wages. Havinir stated our demands, we cordi ally invite all persons who are in sympa thy with them to co-operate witn us, re gardless of former party afflictions. PALPITATION Shortness of Breath, Swell ing of Leg and Feet. Tor about four Fears I was trou bled with palpitation of the heart, shortness of breath and swelling of the legs and feet At times I would faiat i n-ds tresfcM If tta best pto y sicians in SavaDnah, Ga., with no re lief. I then tried various Springs, without benefit. Finally I tried Dr. Miles' Heart Cure also his Nerve and Liver Pills. Af ter beginning to take them Ifelt better! I continued taking them and I am now in better health than for many years. Since my recovery I have gained fifty pounds in weight. I hope this state ment may be of value to some poor sufferer." E. B. SUTTON, Ways Station, Ga. Dr. Miles' Heart Cnre la sold on a positive) Snarantee that the first bottle will benefit. .11 druggist sell It at 11, ft bottle for ft, or It will be sent, prepaid, on receipt ot price by the Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, lad. OF THE HEART, SENATOR FAULKNER 1 CHAIRMAN OP THE DEMOCRAT IC CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE. CLEYELAHD'S POSITION EXPLAINED. The President Has the Same Earnest and Hlneera Interest la the Sueeasn of HIS Party In the Present Campaign . That He Baa A Iwaya Had l the Past Other Lata Political Mows. , Washington. Nov. 5. Senator Faulkner, chairman of the Demo cratic congressional compaign com mittee, yesterday made a statement with reference to his recent call upon the president, at which the political situation was talked over. "As chairman of the congressional committee I called npon the presi dent During the interview l con veyed to him all the information I had in reference to the congressional contests throughout tha country, and the prospects of the Democratic party in the various states. Our conversa tion was confined to the outlook in pending congressional elections, and I found the president, as always, in previous conversations involving tho interests of the Democratic party in the various states, manifesting the deepest concern in the information I communicated to him, and in the hopes I expressed for our success m maintaining a Democratic majority in the Fifty-fourth congress., "He impressed me in that Interview as having the same earnest and sin cere interest in the results of this election, which have always charac terized his utterances in the interest of Democratic principles when they were on trial before the people of this country. He clearly indicated he was satisfied with the direction given the campaign by the congressional . com mittee, in earnestly and intelligently bringing before the voters tho results of Democratic action in the endeavor of congress to redeem Democratic piedsres. Of course we all recognize the fact because Mr. Cleveland is one who does not conceal from the publio his maturely formed opinions, that he had hoped for the'passage of a rev enue measure more In accordance with his views of the pledges of the party in its declaration at Chi cago. But as he has already stated, wnat has been done "will certainly lighten many tariff burdens that now rest heavily upon the people," and he seemed to fully approve the course of the committee ia drawing the con-' trast between the onerous and bur densome actions of the McKlnley bill and the reduct ons made by the exist ing laws; approving fully the presen tation by the committee as shown in its campaign book as well as its other literature, the difference in the condi tion of the treasury under his former administration and that of his suc cessor, Mr. Harrison, and the deplor able condition of the treasury when turned over to him by his predecessor. ''You can rest assured I express my honest judgment when I say that from my conversation with the presi dent, no man takes a deeper interest in the success of the Democratic par ty in the present campaign and in the anxiety of the committee to return a majority to the Fifty-fourth congress than President Cleveland." Tahlkquah, Ind. Ter., Oct 29. A courier has lust arrived with informa tion that Sheriff Proctor and a posse of Cherokees are hot on the trail of Cook and his gang of robbers, only be ing half an hour behind the bandits. Last night Miss Eliza Cook, a sister of the leader -of the notorious gang, rode into Fort Gibson and terrorized the people of that place by shooting into bouses and defying arrest She filled the depot full of lead from her pistol. After driving the frightened citizens off the street she galloped through a squad of deputy marshals and out of town in true bandit queen stvle. rmtirt otrtn mmsvar Ban. Chicago, Nov. 5. Joseph W. Rein hart ex-president and ex-receiver of the Santa Fe railroad, who was in dicted by the federal grand jury on the charge of paying rebates to ship pers in violation of the inter-state commerce law, gave bail in the United States district court yester day. Mr. Reinhart's bond was for $10,000, and it was signed hy William J. Watson. A SoTdTer l-fTPi rfs Mistress. Washington, Nov. 5. Frederick Well, a soldier in the Marine corps, shot his mistress, Annie Orandy, twice in the head last night and then killed himself in a disreputable resort, the result of a quarrel. Well had tired of the woman and had made application for a transfer of duty on board the United States steamer Minneapolis. Well is a Russian about 35 years of age. Artaftsas Baptists "Alarmed. Little Rock, Ark., .Nov. 5. The state Baptist convention in session at Lonoke last night unanimously adopt ed a resolution expressing alarm at the coming power of the Roman Cath olic church over congress and the Federal government, and denouncing aXrTegisIatio'n giving' federal''rev-' enues in support of Roman Catholic or other sectarian schools. A Choctaw l-.zecated. Caddo, Ind. Ter.. Nov. 5. Caleb Pratt the Choctaw who was con victed of murder last August, was shot at 2 o'clock yesterday. He was tried on a charge of murdering an- -other Choctaw. He admitted his guilt, but held out to the very last that the killing was accidental. High Sheriff of Cherokee Nation. Taulequah, Ind. Ter., Nov. Chief Harris has appointed George Wolf high sheriff of the Cherokee na tion, to fill the unexpired term of High Sheriff Wash Mayes, deceased. aim Ji.uu mommy unm pam iui, X - nfci"iewH