NoYember1f, 1894.
PEOPLE'S! PLATFORM.
Adopted by the Conv-ntlon at Om
aha Nebraska, Jaly , 1802.
Assembled upon the one hundred and
sixteenth anniversary of the Declaration
ol Independence, the People's Party of
America, in their first national conven
tion, invoking upon their action the
blessings of Almighty God. pats forth in
the name, and on behalf of the people of
the country, the following preamble and
declaration of principles:
The conditions which surround ns best
justify our co-operation; we meet in the
midst of a nalion brought to the verge
of moral, political and material ruin.
Corruption dominates the ballot box,
the legislatures, the Congress, and
touches even the ermine of the
bench. The people are demoralized;
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
subsidized or muzzled; 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
zation for Belf-protection; imported pan.
perized labor beats down their wages; a
hireling army, unrecognized by our law,
is established to snoot them down; and
they are rapidly degenerating into Euro
pean conditions. The fruits of the toil of
millions are boldly stolen to build up
colossal fortunes 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
justice we breed the two great classes
tramps and millionaires.
The national power to create money
: nmnntiil tn unrinh bondholders: a
ib niji ui jof.
vast public debt, payable in legal tender
' m I f .. J 11 Knnn
currency, nas oeeu muueu iuiuguiu-ui-ing
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-
w orni Tori Arid tn thft nnrohnsinffnow-
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
vast conspiracy against mankind has
been organized on two continents, and
it is rapidly taking possession of the
world. If not met and overthrown at
once it forebodes terrible social convul-
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ism. We have witnessed for more than
a quarter of a century the struggles 01
the two great political parties tor power
and plunder, while-grievous wrongs have
been inflicted upon the suffering people.
We charge that tne controlling mnuem-e
dominating both these parties have per
mitted the existing dreadful conditions
to develop, without serious effort to
prevent 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 tariff; so that capitalists, corpo
rations, national banks, rings, trut,
watered stock, the demonetization of sil
ver, and the oppressions of the usurers
may all be lost sight of. They propose
to 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
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common defense, promote the general
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ourselves and our posterity."
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be pinned together by bayonets, that the
civil war is over and that every passion
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hood. Our country finds itself confront
ed by conditions for which there is no
precedent in the history of the world.
Our annual agricultural productions
amount to billions of dollars in value.
which must within a few weeks or months
be exchanged for billions of dollars of
Anmmniiit,ia consumed in their produc
tion; the existing currency supply is
wholly inadequate to make this exchange.
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tion of combines and rings, and the im
poverishment of the producing class. We
pledge ourselves that if given power we
will labor to correct these evils by wise
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and reasonable legislation, In accordance
with the terms of our platform.
We believe that the powers of govern
ment in other words, of the people
should be expanded (a in the case of the
postal service) as rapidly and as far as
the good sense of an intelligent people,
and the teachings of experience, shall
justify; to the end that oppression, in
justice and poverty shall eventually cease
in the land.
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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 wnicn.noi oniy our wamuuui
prosperity, but the very existence of free
institutions depends; and we ask all men
to first help us to determine wneiner 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 ol reiorm inis aay orgau
to move forward un
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women of this country.
We declare, therefore,
UNION OP THE PEOPLE.
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
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shall he eat." The interests of rural and
civic labor are the same; their enemies
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must own the railroads; and should the
government enter upon the work of own
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aiiMiilri favor an amendment to the con
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in the government service shall be pro
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moat, ririri ihftpnotr ho as to Tirevent
the increase of the power of the national
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gov'ernment only; a full legal tender for
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ur. ,iU!ra ml that thn nmount of cir
culating medium be speedily increased to
not less than i&oper capita.
We demand a graduated income la.
Wo haliava that the monev of the
country should be kept, as much as pos
sible, in the bands 01 tne peopie; auu
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 that postal pavings uanas
beestabtished by the government for the
safe deposit of the earnings of the people
and the facilitation of exchange.
TRANBrOBTATIUn.
Transportation being a means of ex
change and a public necessity; the gov
ernment should own and operate the
vailmaria in th interest of the neoole.
The telegraph and telephone, like the
postofflce system, oeing a necessity,, ior
ho t.PBnamiiuiionof news, should be Owned
and operated by the government in the
interests 01 tne peopie.
LANDS.
Th land, inelndinir all natural re
sources of wealth, is the heritage of the
people, and should not De monoponzea
for speculative purposes; and alien owner
hin nl Innd should be nrohibited. All
land now held by railroads and other
corporations in excess oi tneir actual
.ula anil nil lands now owned bv
aliens', should be reclaimed by the gov
ernment and held for actual settlers
only.
RESOLUTIONS
Tka fallmrinir reHol ntions were offered
independent of the platform, and were
adopted, as expressive of the sentiments
nf f IkA nnnirontion!
Resolved, That we demand a free ballot
and a fair count In all electrons, and
pledge ourselves to secure to it every
fln-oi voter without federal intervention.
through the adoption by the states of
the unperverteo Australian secret uunui
system. .. ..
uiul That thn revenue derived from
AWOVl , , ... ,
a graduated income tax should be appli-
ed to tne reaucuuu ui ureuuiuram Men
tion now levied upon the domestic m
dustries of this couutry.
and $1.00 monthly for
enf
to fair and liberal peuoioue io u
1 . . 1 .U HtlH III AM
RetolTvd, Tba.HecondetnoUtck.
of protecting Amr-rlciM labor utsds,
prment ytm, which opnour poj
tne pauper nuu cnioinw -j
world, anu crnwui uniuur v- -and
we denounce th prwwnt ineK.
: . .n.u..tui mtsA (If
law okbiubi wiiuiiwtiiMwit"-- - i
the further restriction of naaeit
immigration. ' I
Resolved, Tbat w corC-i. J K
thize with the efforta of orB,xJ
itigmen to nhorter the honraotlaM
demand a rigid enforaaMBt of the
ing eight-hour law on govtrsment
and ask that a penalty daw be ad.
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ma taw, ... I
Resolved, Tbat wt rrra xmJ
tenanceofa large taai'.rx
....imn.viiia knnnrn the t int
syotem, aa a menace toonr KDerm
we demand its abolition, and wecot
the recent invasion of tfce Tertlt,
Wyoming by tba mrM
Plutocracy, aseiated by Feiaral ol
Keeolved, That we commend t
.t.n..l.f(iil nnnaiilanrlna of tm I
and the reform preaa, the kjislatw
tem known ae the Initiative and K
dnm. I
D.l.ul That-. Bra fawOT a COl
tioual provision liminnx se oun
president and vice president to on
ana nniviuuiir iir iw
.nn.tni.. hv a. diManl- vote of the
itv aaaai ws a wm - ' -n.
mi . x u'i m an
iteaoivea, mac weocpow "j
or nauonai aia to mmj pni
tiua ior euiy uuinjn.
tt m . MllHt
Illinois. i ,r if..
J. H. Tdrnkr, Becrttry. Georgia.
La whence McFARLAKn, Secretary ,
M. C. Rankin, Treaeurer, Terre H
inuiauo.
ADMIRAL CHERARDI RETII
He Leave a Nobl Kauord Behind
of Forty-KlsrUa Vr eervloe.
Washingtox, No. U. At noonl
day there was placed on the retiv
list the commandant of the Raw XI
navv vard. Admirat Bancroft ; G(
ardi, one of the Tew" old war
munders now in the naval berv
and known in naval parlance as'
"Sea-froing admiraL" He leave
hind him a career of distinction
of hard fighting and severe se
without a blemish. His total a
service amounts to forty-tight yl
and five raontlia, and twentyi
years and eight months of that sen
were spent at sea.
Striker Wordno Onllty of Murder.
Woodland, CaL. Nov. 12.-Salem
Worden, one of the American Ba
way anion men charged with havic
wrecked a Southern Pacific train dii
ing the strike in July last, cansin?
the death of Engineer Clark ana fou
United States soldiers, was convictel
of murder in the first dejree yester
day. The jury offered norecommei
datioh. ' The penalty is death or lifl
imprisonment. The otner accasec
train wreckers will be promptly tried.
1 - ft'
bo llODd las BO. :
Washington, Nov, 12. The repoi
telegraphed from New Torn and pu
lished in the morning ;. papers th
anotner $50, 000,000 bona issue us'
been determined upon is witho
foundation, but Secretary Carlisle h'
not changed in the least his poL
with respect to the issue of by
and if it is found neewaerry to i
bonds to maintain ereO t"ity w.
issuea witnout tne least seaiti
The present conditions do Dot,
rant such action. '
Chicago's Hayoraltr CMtost Oi
Chicago, Nov. 12. Judge Sci
day dismissed the petition
election contest case of Oeorl
Swift against Mayor Hopkins, t
closed the content in the loweA
over the mayoralty election 0
December, but - Attorney Ji S. V
representing Swift, the Rep
contestant, gave notice of app
. jllg KU I.oula Urm Impng
St. Louis, Mo Nov. 11 T
tinental National bank' of t
to-day entered an attachmei
against the Seigel gas fixtur
pany, one of the largest in t
for $19,534. the face of notes
by the stock , in trade of the
company which, the bank al
its suit, is being disponed of
lentlv. '
TIRED, WEAK, NERVOUS,
Could Hot Sleep,
Prof. L. D. Edwards, of Preston.
Idaho, says: I wa3 all run down,
weak, nervous and irritable throujr't
overwork. 1 sulTered from brain fa
tljjue, mental depression, etc. 1 be
came 80 weak and nervous that
could not sleep, I would arise tired,
discouraged and blue. I bcaa taking
Dr. Miles' Nervine
and now cverythinir Is changed. 1
6lcep soundly, I feel bright, active
and ambitious. I can do more in one
day now than I used to do in a week.
For this great pxd I give Dr. Miles'
Restorative is'crvine the sole credit.
It Cures."
T)r. Miles' Nervine Is sold on s retire
rnarantoe that the first botlle will bt-noiit.
All druggists sell I tat $1,6 bottles for 15, or
It will be aent, prepaid, on receipt of prlco
by the Dr. allies Medical Co., Elkhart, luj.
lUaolfoi. Tbat we uw v
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I your If
re, down in your
tnat beart you can not
have a feeling tbat there
wrong. You don't like :
to seieV
ting tk4 -.-
of theci ; .3-
hunger and crime stalking
Yon aay it is the fault
pie, but vu do not aay it witbr thrt ,
impulse that cornea of a complete
conviction. You do not approve of
the open bribery of congress by which
a few get millions they never earn,"
which means that the many, who are
poor, lose millions they are entitled .
to. 1 say there are times when yon
think things on these lines tbat you
would not for considerable have your
party associates know. They think
the same things but keep it to them
selves. You are afraid to be out
spoken in your thoughts, as it would
lubject you to ridicule and probably
financial loss. It takes a hero to defy
public opinion for truth's sake. Ana
o you go on supporting a system yon
io not like, supporting a party ba
jause you are not able to brave the
ridicule of friends, support a tyranny
because you do not know jnst now to
ihange it A little study of reform
books will do wonders for you, my
friend. Just try it Coming Natiaw.
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