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There is no hope of relief from the conditions that now curse the
American people, until both of the old parties have been destroyed. They
are the willing and subservient tools of corporate power, and are utterly
unable to perform a single noble and patriotic act. This is the sentiment
that is breathed forth by every line and picture ia Vox Populi, the
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throughout the United States, and from the columns of which the above
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BILL'S POLITISAL HISTORY OF THE
UNITED STATES.
By Thomas E. HilL
This is a large octavo book of 450 pages, condensed by tabulation
into a small book that it may be universally sold and circulated at a
low price.
Its purpose is to clearly present, in a manner entirely non-partisan,
the merit attaching to each party. No partiality is shown in behalf
of any political organization. Like the dictionary, it simply defines.
It gives the best-known argument in favor of each, and leaves the
reader free to choose which he will serve.
It treats upon the important live issues oi the time, and is an indis
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situation. It is a very exhaustive compendium of Political Facts,
and literally answers thousands of questions. To illustrate: -
What are Democratic principles?
Wbat does a single-tax advocate propose'
If all tax was placed on land, what would
be the tax on the form!
What would be the tax on suburban prop
erty, and how much on the acre wort h two
million dollars in the center of the city!
What does a Republican believe!
Why be a Republican and favor high pro
tective tariff I
What are tfc arguments for and against
protection!
What do to Socialists want
What woul4 be UseoKdlilomlf SaiJlstf
principles prevailed!
What do the Populist desire!
If government owned and operated the
banks, and banks never failed, and people
never hid their money and all money came
out and into active circulation, and money
was so abundant that interest became low,
and all enterprise started up and everybody
had employment, what then!
What do the Nationalists want!
Why nationalize the railroads, the coal
mines and various industries!
What do the eight-hour advocates pro
pose! If working certain hours yields cer
tain profit, how could working less hours
yield more profit!
How could women be benefited by voting!
What started the financial panic of 18931
Who commenced the tirade against silver,
that resulted in the repeal of the Sherman
law!
Who started the stampede on the banks In
1803, by which 714 of them failed in eight
months, and four hundred million dollars
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were drawn out of the banks and hidden
within a period of ninety days! .
Who was President of the United Statei. '.z.
1849183918681
Who have been the occupants of the prext
dentlal chair since 1H7I
Who have been members of the Cabinet
during every presidential administration!
How many Democrats, Republicans, and
members of other parties have we had in
each and every Congress!
How many lawyers in each Comrressl
Whence originated the names of "Brother
Jonathan," "Uncle Sam," "Loco-Foco,"
"Silver Greys," etc., etc.!
What were the Irenes Involved In the
Missouri Compromise, the Monroe Doctrine,
the Dred Scott Decision, Fugitive Slave
Law, etc., etc. I
What of the biographical record of the
great leaders In our early history, Including
Washington, Patrick Henry, Hamilton,
Webster, Franklin, Clay, Calhoun, Jefferson
and others!
What has thrown so many people into
Idleness of late years!
Why so many tramps!
What is the history of the Coxey move
ment! When did the coal miners' strike begin
and what was the extent of that movement!
What are the facts abeut the Pullman
strike, the American Railway Union and
the boycott of the Pullman cars!
What ate the remedies proposed whereby
capital and labor may each have Justice!
Bee "Hilt's Political History of the United
States."
We want yon to notice every new "ad"
in our columns. They are put there es
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I'fcUIM.K'M Vli. TKOItM.
Adopted by tht Convnflon at Om
aha Nebraska, July 4, 1H02.
Assembled upon the one hundred and
sixteenth anniversary of the Dwlumtion
of Independence, the People' Party of
America, in their first national conven
tion, invoking upon their action tbe
blessings of Almighty God, puts forth in
the name, and on behall of the people of
the country, the following preamble and
declaration of principles:
Tbe conditions which surround us beat
justify our co-operutiou; we meet in the
midst of a nation brought to the verge
of moral, political and material rain.
Corruption dominates the ballot box,
the legislatures, the Congress, and
touches even the ermine of the
bench. The people are demoralized;
most of tbe state 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
sation for self-protection; imported pau
perized labor beats down tbeir 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
colossal fortunes for a few, 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
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
monetized 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, andenslave industry. A
vast conspiracy against mankind has
been organised on two continents, and
it is rapidly taking possession of the
world. If not met and overthrown at
once it forebodes terrible social convul
sions, the destruction of 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 influence
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, trusts,
watered stock, tbe 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 failed with the spirit of
the grand generation of men, who estab
lished our independence, we seek to re
store the government of the Republic to
the hands of "the plain people," with
whose class it originated. We assert our
purposes to be identical with the purpose
of the national constitution: "to forma
more perfect union, establish justice, in
sure domestic tranquility, provide for the
common defense, promote the general
welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty
ourselves and our posterity."
We declare that this republic can only
endure as a free government while built
upon the love of the whole peopleforeach
other and for tbe nation; that it cannot
be pinned together by bayonets, that the
civil war is over ana In at every passion
and resentment which grew out of it must
die with it; and that we must be in fact,
as we are in name, one united brother
hood. Our country finds itself confront
ed by conditions for which there is no
precedent in the history t 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
commodities consumed in their produc
tion; the existing currency supply ia
wholly inadequate to make this exchange.
The results are falling prices, the forma
tion of combines and rings, and tbe im
poverishment of the producing class. We
pledge ourselves that if given power we
will labor to correct these evils by wise
and reasonable legislation, in accordance
with the terms of our platform.
We believe that the powers of govern
mentin other words, of the people
should be expanded (as 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 trie land.
While our sympathies as a party of re
form are naturally npon the side of every
proposition which mil tend to make men
intelligent, virtuous and temperate, we
nevertheless regard these questions im
portant as they are as secondary to tbe
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,
UNION OF 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
bery. "If any man will not work neither
shall he eat" The interests of rural and
civic labor are tbe same; their enemies
are identical.
Third. We believe that the time has
come when the railroad corporations
will either own the pwiplo or the people
must own tbe railroads; and should tlx
govern men t enter upon the work of own
ing and managing the railroads, we
should favor an amendment to the con
stitution by which all persons engaged
In the government service shall be pro
tected by civil service regulations of the
most rigid character, bo as to prevent
the increase of the power of the national
administration by the use of such addi
tional gonernmeut employes.
FINANCE.
We damand a national currency, safe,
sound and flexible; issued by the general
government only; a full legal tender for
all debts public and private; and that
without tne use 01 banRingnorporations;
a just equitable and efficient means of
distribution direct to tbe people, at a tax
not to exceed 2 per cent per annum, to
be provided as set forth in the sub-treasury
plan of the Farmers' Alliance, or
some better system; also by payments in
discharge of its obligations for public
improvements:
We demand free and unlimited coinage
of silver and gold at the present legal
ration of 16 to 1.
We demand that the amount of cir
culating medium be speedily increased to
not less than $50 per capita.
We demand a graduated income tax.
We believe that the money of the
country should be kept as much as pos
sible, in the hands of 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 that postal savings banks
be established by the government for the
safe deposit of the earnings of the people
and the facilitation of exchange.
TRANSPORTATION.
Transportation being a means of ex
change and a public necessity: tbe gov
ernment should own and operate the
railroads in tbe interest of the people.
The telegraph and telephone, like the
postofflce system, being a necessity, for
tne transmissionof news, should be owned
and operated by the government in the
interests 01 tne people.
LANDS.
The land, ' including all natural
sources of wealth, is the heritage of the
people, and should not be, monopolized
for speculative purposes; and alien owner
ship of land should be prohibited. 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 tbe gov
ernment and held for actual settlers
only.
RESOLUTIONS. . .
The following resolutions were offered
independent of the platform, and were
adopted, as expressive 01 toe sentiments
of the convention:
Resolved, That wedemandafree ballot
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 therevenuederived from
a graduated income tax should be appli
ed to the reduction of tbeburdenof taxa
tion now levied upon tbe domestic m
dustries of this couutry.
Resolved, That we pledge our support
to fair and liberal pensions -o ex-!Jaiun
soldiers and sailors.
Resolved, Thaw ne condemn the fallaov
of protecting American labor under the
I present system, which opens our ports to
tne pauper and criminal classes 01 tne
world, and crowds ont our wage-earners
and we denounce the present ineffective
law against contract labor, and demand
the further restriction of undesirable
immigration.
Resolved, That we cordially sympa
thize with the efforts of organized work'
ingmen to shorter the hours of labor and
demand a rigid enforcement of the exist
ing eightrhour law on government 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 rinkerton
system, as a menace to our liberties, and
we demand its abolition, and wecondemn
the recent invasion of the Territory of
Wyoming by the hired assassins of
flutocracy. assisted by federal officers,
Resolved, That we commend to tbe
thoughtful consideration of the people
and the reform press, the legislative sys
tem known as tne Initiative and Referen
dum.
Resolved, That we favor a constitu
tioual provision limiting tbe office of a
president and vice president to one term,
and providing for the election of the
senators by a direct vote of the people,
Resolved, That we oppose any subsidy
or national aid to any private corpora
tion for any purpose.
H. E. Taubeneck, Chairman, Marshall,
Illinois.
J. H. Turner, Secretary, Georgia.
Lawrence McFarland, Secretary, New
Xork.
M. C. Rankin, Treasurer, Terre Haute,
Indiana.
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MISSOURI SOLONS.
tliw I'hlpp Department HlortJ Mill En
KrneaHil In the) llous.
Jefkekhon Citv, Ma, Feb. 4.
Fhipps' bill fixing a license tax of .")
upon each line of goods over two car
ried in department stores went to
engrossment by an undivided vote.
Tha entire afternoon in the house,
was consumed in the discussion of
the cigarette bill. It was a hard
fight, and at last the bill went to
engrossment somewhat amended.
It is made a misdemeanor for any
one to sell or give a cigar to any child
under the age of 18 years. A second
section providing that any boy under
18 years old using tobacco or smoking
a cigar or a cigarette In any public
place, might be fined from 82 to $5 for
so doing, was stricken from the bill.
The desire was to incorporate the
New York law into the statutes of
this state, but the defeat of the
second section eliminates the strong
est feature of that law from the en
grossed bill.
Senator Tears introduced a bill pro
viding that the state librarian and
the reporter of the supreme court
give bond, and it fixes the amount of
the bond.
Senator Pears introduced a bill cre
ating the oflice of building commis
sioner for the state university.
Some time ago the senate adopted
a resolution calling upon President
Jesse of the state university to fur
nish certain information, as regards
the number of teachers, professors,
and their salaries, in that institution.
President Jesse hus not yet complied
with the request. Senator Goody
koontz introduced a supplemental
resolution asking why the previous
resolution has not been answered by
information asked.
The senate has passed the Macon
road law by a unanimous vote. This
bill was recently defeated in the
house, but it was done without an
understanding of its provisions and
effect. Since then the bill has been
so amended as to apply only to cities
of the third and fourth classes.
New York v llltln Itetnrn Home.
Bkookljtn, N. Y., Feb. 4. The mil
itia all through the city have received
orders to return to their homes. A
guard at each of the armories will,
however, be maintained.
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS BREVITIES
J. Alvin Sankey took the first prize
in oratory at the college of Emporia
contest.
Che! Long, probably tha boldest
horse-thief in the business was cap
tured near, Chandler, Ok.
Mrs. John Hudson of Oak Grove,
Ma, wife of a well-known farmer,
was killed by a runaway team.
Specials from various parts of the
state indicate that much snow has
fallen in Nebraska. Tha mercury i
at zero and a high wind prevails.
The wife of Douglas Balls, a farmer,
residing eight miles east of Oklahoma
City, gave birth to three babies, all
of whom are alive and doing well.
The Rev. W. E. Ilinshaw, whose
wife was so foully murdered by sup
posed burglars at Belleville, 111., three
weeks ago, is charged with her mur
der. A wholesale raid on the safes in
Cheney, a small town west of Wichita,
was made by persons who have man
aged to get away without leaving a
clew behind them.
Elinira, N. Y., Daily Gazette makes
the announcement that Thomas Ryan
of Topeka, ex-minister to Mexico and
ex-congressman from Kansas, is soon
to locate in that city and accept the
presidency of an insurance company.
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We invite attention to the advertise,
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These nurseries cultivate direct tracti
with the plants, at low prices, for choic
stock. Tbey have planted seven million
trees on tree claim contract's and sent
out trees for many thousands of success
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came so weak and nervous that I
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SUICIDE IN A CHURCH.
A Young Now York Woman Kills II
aelf In ConfsioniI iiox.
Nkw Yokk. Feb. 4.A few minutes
before 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon
two women in the church of the.
Epiphany on Second avenue, this city,
heard the sound of a body falling for
ward by groans and gasps from a con
fessional box in the southeast corner
of the church.
One woman summoned the assistant
sexton, who hurried into the church
and opened the confessional and
found lying in a heap, with blood
flowing from her right wrist and
throat, the almost lifeless body of a
young woman. A doctor was called,
who saw that the woman's condition
was hopeless,' and twenty minutes
after the discovery she was dead.
In a pool of blood in the confes
sional was found an old fashioned
razor. With this the woman had al-
most severed one of her hands and
her throat had been cut from ear to
ear. There were no services going
on at the time. She was insane and
worth 940,000. Katie Morrison was
her name.
HEARD NO CRIES FOR HELP.
Tha Men of tha Crathle Dear Hearties
uosh Mlaa Uanckner'a Experience.
Rotterdam, Feb. 4. Captain Gor
don of the Crathie, the steamer which
is allegod to have sunk the Elbe, the
man who was at the wheel when the
collision occurred and the members
of the crew who were on deck at the
time have been examined judicially
and have all affirmed that they did
not see the vessel with which the
Crathie collided, that they did not
see a vessel sink and that tbey did
not hear any cries of distress.
The charts show that the place
where the Elbe went down the water
ia 126 feet deep.
London, Feb. 3. Miss Anna Bueck
ner, the only woman saved from the
Elbe, says that when the first boat
capsized she swam until she caught
one of the oars of the other boat
which had been launched and then
somebody on board the latter craft
shouted: "Push her off." They tried
to do so, but she held on so firmly to
the oar that she was finally pulled on
board.
Paaaenger and I relit ht Collide.
Pittsbuko, Pa., Feb. 4. The Balti
more & Ohio express train from Cin
cinnati jumped the track at Woodell
at 10 o'clock this morning and collided
with a freight standing on a sidln&r.
One man in the caboose of the freight
was instantly killed and another bad
ly hurt The baggage car went over
one side of an embankment and the
smoker over the other side, but none
of the occupants were seriously hurts
Powdered f ornooba Sold a 11 ran.
Omaha, Neb., Feb. 4. A cereal mill
here, it is alleged, has been grinding
up corncobs and selling them for
bran. This sort of "bran" costs $200
per carload while the real costs $300.
The milkmen here have been puzzled
at the small amount of milk produced
by their cows since this bran was
placed on the market a month ago.
Corncobs have the quality of drying
up a cow.
One Election Law Violator Sentenced.
St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 4. The first
conviction of unlawful acts in the re
cent election came to-day when Ed
ward Miller, who had been on trial
in the criminal court for the past two
days on a charge of fraudulent vot
ing, was found gnilty and sentenced
to two years in the penitentiary. A
motion for a new trial was filed by
his attorneys.
Ill Flrat Crime Fatal.
Denver, CoL, Feb. 4. Frank Wie
comb, while attempting to steal a
6ack of coal from a Union Pacific
freight car, was shot and probably
fatally wounded by Special Police
man Peter Daily. Wiscomb had no
work and determined to steal rather
than see his wife and baby starve
and freeze.
lo Prevent a 1M order.
Dktboit, Mich., Feb. 4. William
Brusseau, a nurse of the wife of Dr.
Horace E. Pope,, a dentist, swears
that he found Dr. Pope sitting on his
wife's bed, holding a cloth saturated
with chloroform over her mouth, the
doctor fired at him,' but missed him.
Then he seized a hatchet and buried
it in the skull of the doctor.
Coinage for January.
Washington, Feb. i. The monthly
statement of the director of the mint
shows at the several mints during
January, 1595, as ; follows: Gold,
83,698,300; silver, 8:64,00O; minor
coins, 963,300. Of the silver coined
8200,000 was in silver dollars. Since
July 1, 1894, the number of silver
dollars coined was 3,392,978.
Co-Operative Making Proposed.
St. Joseph, Ma, Feb. 4. The collar
factory of the Wyeth Hardware com
pany which was burned a few weeks
ago, will not be rebuilt, but the em
ployees will try to operate another
factory on the co-operative plan, the
Wyeths agreeing to take the entire
output
Advised to Stop Warring.
Shanghai, Feb. 4. It is stated on
good authority that the British,
French and Russian ministers at To
kio and at Peking have received in
structions form their governments to
advise Japan and China to arrange
terms of peace.
Pnblio Debt Statement.
Washington, Feb. 4. The monthly
statement of the public debt shows
on January 31 the public cash in the
treasury amounted to $934,446,269, an
increase of the month of 513,542,574
The grand jury is investigating the
theft from the county clerk's office of
the will of the late James Q. Fair.
Several members of the grand jury
believe that some deputy in the
clerk's office committed the theft or
knows the thief.
Matt Ryan,' the notorious crook,
murderer and jail breaker, was cap
tured last night at Pittsburg, Kan.,
and was brought to the Douglas
county jail, from which he sawed his
way out last November.
