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What are Democratic principles!
What does a single-tax advocate propose'
If all tax was placed on land, what would
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What would be the tax on suburban prop
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million dollars in the center of the cityl
What does a Republican believe!
Why be a Republican and favor high pro
tective tariff!
What are the arguments for and against
protection!
f What do the Socialists want!
What would be the conditions if Socialistic
principles prevailed!
What do the Populists 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
wag go 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 1893!
Who commenced the tirade against silver,
that resulted in the repeal of the Sherman
law!
Who started the stampede on the banks In
1883, by which 714 of them failed in eight
months, and (our hundred million dollars
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HISTORY OF THE
STATES.
E. Hill.
were drawn out of the banks and hidden
within a period of ninety days!
Who was President of the United States in
1849 1858 1869!
Who have been the occupants of the presi
dential chair since 18791
Who have been members of the Cabinet
duringevery presidential administration!
How many Democrats, Republicans, and
member of other parties have we had in
each and every Congress!
How many lawyers in each Congress!
Whence originated the names of "Brother
Jonathan," "Uncle Sam," "Loco-Foco,"
"Silver Greys," etc. , etc. I
What were the issues involved In the
Missouri Compromise, the Monroe Doctrine,
the Dred Scott Decision, Fugitive Slave
Law, etc., etc.!
What of the biographical record of the
great leaders In ourearly 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 about the Pullman
strike, the American Railway Union and
the boycott of the Pullman cars!
What are the remedies proposed whereby
capital and labor may each have Justice!
See "Hill's Political History of the United
States."
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rturu's PLATFORM.
Adopted by the Convention at Om
aha Nebraska, July 4, 1802.
Assembled upon the one hundred and
sixteenth anniversary of the Declaration
of Independence, the People's Party of
America, in their first national conven
tion, invoking upon 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 ol principles:
The conditions which surround ns best
justify our co-operation; we meet in the
midst of a nation 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
beuch. The people are demoralized;
most of the states have been compelled
to isolate the voters at the polling places
to prevent universal intimidation or
bribnry. The newspapers are largely
subsidized or muzzled; public opinion
sileuced; business prostrated; our homes
eovered 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 self-protection; imported pau
perized 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
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, 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
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 iufluence
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 outcriesof aplundered
people with the uproar of a sham battle
over the tariff; so that capitalists, corpo
rations, national banks, rings, trusts,
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
store the government of the Republio 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 people for each
other and for the nation; that it cannot
be pinned together by bayonets, that the
civil war is over and that 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 time is no
precedent in the history of the worid
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; tne existing currency supply is
wholly inadequate to make this exchange.
The results are falling prices, the forma
tion of combines and rings, and the im
poverishment or the producing class. We
pledge ourselves that if given power we
win iaDor to correct these evils by wise
and reasonable legislation, in accordance
witn tne 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
jnstify; to the end that oppression, in
justice and poverty shalleventually cease
in the land.
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 as 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 spiriteuter 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 the same; their enemies
are identical.
Third. We believe that the time has
come when the railroad corporations
will either own the people or the people
must own the railroads; and should the
government enter upon the work of own
ing and managing the railroads, we
should favor aa 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, so as to prevent
the increase of the power of the national
administration by the use of such addi
tional gonernment 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 the line of bankingcorporations;
a just equitable and efficient means of
distribution direct to the 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 bauks
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; the gov
ernment should own and operate the
railroads in the interest of the people.
The telegraph and telephone, like the
postofflce 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 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 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 wedemandafree ballot
and a fair count in all elections, and
pledge ourselves to secure to' it evdry
legal voter without federal intervention,
through the adoption by the states of
the unperverted Australian secret ballot.
system.
Resolved, That therevenue derived from
a graduated income tax should be appli
ed to the reduction of theburdenof taxa
tion now levied upon the domestic in
dustries of this couutry.
Resolved, That we pledge onr support
to fair and liberal pensions io ex-Union
soldiers and sailors. s
Resolved, Tha we condemn the fallacy
of protecting American labor under the
present system, which opens our ports to
the pauper and criminal classes of the
world, and crowds out 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 hoursof labor and
demand a rigid enforcement of the exist
ing eight-hour law ou 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 Pinkerton
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
Plutocrucy, 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 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.
II. E. Taubeneck, Chairman, Marshall,
Illinois. ,
J. H. Turner, Secretary, Georgia.
La whence McFauland, Secretary, New
York.
M. C. Rankin, Treasurer, Terro Haute,
Indiana.
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CANADIAN PARLIAMENT,
Members Summoned to Meet April 18
Cabinet Change.
Ottawa, Ont., March 23. Parliament
hs been summoned to meet April IS.
The remedial order calling upon Mani
toba to re-establish Roman Cathollo
schools In the province was promul
gated yesterday. It will likely result
In the resignation of Patterson, minis
ter of militia, who represents the
Btronff protestant constitution of West
Huron. The cabinet changes to follow
are these: Secretary of State Dickey
will become minister of militia, and the
portfolio of state will go to Dr. Mon
tague. Cohan Rebels Defeated.
New York, March 23. A special cabU
to the Herald from Havana, Cuba,
says: "News has been received from
Santiago that Gen. Garrich made a sor
tie last Monday with a force of 100 cav
alry and 100 infantry and met a party
of thirty bandits led by Valencuela.
The insurgents were defeated after a
hard fight. The government reports
that Ave insurgents were killed, and
that guns and horses were captured.
Gen. Uarrich, it is reported, met and de
feated another party. All is quiet, the
report says, in the other provinces."
Program In the I'tah Constitution.
Salt Lake, Utah. March 23. In the
constitutional convention yesterday
the committee of the whole took up
Bee. 4 of the preamble and declaration
of rights referring to taxation of
church property, etc., and after a long
debate It was laid on the table. The
eectlon referring to suspension of the
habeas corpus precipitated considera
ble discussion. Sec. 10, referring to
trial by jury, was being discussed at
adjournment.
It Looks Had for the Peace Plant.
Yokohama, March 23. It is expected
the negotiations for , peace between
China and Japan will not be success
ful. The army is the dominant power In
Japan and the military men are bent
upon continuing the campaign. Fresh
troops are being hurried forward. In
the house of representatives notice has
been given of a motion declaring that
the time for peace negotiations has
not arrived.
Tries to Burn Catholic Chorehes.
Washington, March 23. Attempts
were made yesterday to set fire to two
of the largest Catholic churches In the
city, St. Patrick's and St. Dominic's.
In both cases the fire was discovered
and extinguished before material dam
age had been done. A woman Is sus
pected of the crime. The incendiary is
supposed to be a fanatic whose brain
has been affected by constant attention
to religion.
Mrs. Gongar Gets Another TrlaL
Boston, Mass.. March 23. In the
United States circuit court Judge Put
nam granted the motion of the plaintiff
for a new trial. in the libel case of Mrs.
Helen M. Gougar of La Fayette, Ind.,
vs. Congressman Elijah A. Morse of this
state. Last September she sued to
recover $25,000 damages, but the Jury
returned a verdict for the defendant;
nence tne motion lor a new trial
Ministers May Go to Nicaragua.
Colon, March 23. It Is learned there
was a misunderstanding as to the cause
of the detention of the Rev. Dr. Tully
of New York on his way to Greytown.
The Nicaraguan government does not
object to Protestant Episcopal clergy.
men entering Its territory, but the
steamship officers would not receive
him on board. He intends to proceed
on his way to Greytown at the first op
portunity. Blare at St. Paul.
6t Paul, Minn., March 23. Fire
broke out last night in the basement of
the block occupied by A. H. Schlleck
as a shoe store. An explosion drove
cut the doors at both ends of the store,
but no one was injured. The total loss
on the stock and building is estimated
at SS5.000, on which there was $70,000
Insurance.
Chinese Join Knights of Labor
New York, March 23. The Chinese
laundrymen here have determined to
form an organization among them
selves, under the title of the Chinese
Benevolent and Protective association.
They will then apply for admission to
the Knights of Labor. This Is for the
purpose of protection against cut prices
In laundry work.
Plan for Republican League Meeting.
Cleveland, Ohio, March 23. June 20
the convention of the National Repub
lican league will open in Cleveland. At
least 2,600 delegates are expected. The
total number of visitors will exceed 10,
000. President Harrison, Reed, Allison,
Depew, and McKinley are expected to
be the speakers and have been invited
to be present.
Point in Income Tax.
Washington, March 23. Judge
Hughes of the eastern district of Vir
ginia in making his Income-tax re
turns said he had no Income except his
salary, which was exempt He holds
the constitution provides the salary
of the President and judges shall not
be diminished during their term, and
the tax is a diminution.
Bayard May Be Senator.
Wilmington, Del., March 23. James
L. Wolcott, democratic candidate for
United States senator, withdrew from
the contest yesterday, and all but one
democrat voted for Edward RIdgely
when the ballot was taken at noon. In
all probability Ambassador Bayard will
be chosen by the democratic caucus,
which It is believed will be held to-day.
Operative Locked Out.
Olneyville, R. I., March 23. Six hun
dred operatives are locked out at the
Weybasset mills, no explanation being
given. The operatives will meet to con
sdier the situation.
Will Not Meet Operators.
Boone, Iowa, March 23. The miners
refused to meet the operators as re
quested, referring the subject to the
state executive committee. The exist
ing agreement expires April 1 and the
operators say they must have a reduc
tion. President of Lehigh It Dea.
Bethlehem. Pa,. March 23. Dr. Hun
Coppee. acting nresident of the lhih
university, died suddenly yesterday of
neart aisease. aged 75 years.
an druggist tell Dr. Miles' Nerve Plasters.
TALKS FOIi VETERANS
EMPEROR WILLIAM WANTS LIB
ERAL PENSIONS.
J. he Defenders of the Fatherland Are
to Be Looked After Prince Hohen
lohe to ubmlt Suitable Proposal to
the Reichstag.
Berlin, March 23. The Reichsan
zelger upon the occasion of the anniver
sary of the birth of Emperor William
I., grandfather of the present emperor
of Germany, publishes a decree ad
dressed by Emperor William to the
chancellor of the' Garman empire. The
emperor says "On this day, sacred to
the memory of Emperor Wlllam L, I
feel with especial keenness the neces
sity of making some provision, as he
would have wished, for the men who
obeying the summons of their com
manders and rejoicing In the sacrifice
staked life and health for the, father
land. I would, therefore, regard It
with greater satisfaction If the officers,
surgeons, officials and men of the army
and navy who, in consequence of their
Injuries sustained during the time of
service, forfeited their claim to a second
year's active service in the calcula
tions of their pensions, could hence
forth have the difference thus caused
made up to them. It would also give
me satisfaction if the non-commissioned
officers and men who took an
honorable part in the campaigns of
1870 and 1871 or in the wars waged by
the German states before 1870, and who
are needy, could be granted assistance
In the future. I do not lose sight of
the fact that the circumstances admit
the claims of only a number of men
and that these only are considered. But
It is my earnest wish that the grati
tude of the fatherland should at least
be manifested toward those who are
in a position of indigence."
The decree then charges Prince Ho
henlohe to submit the proposal and to
carry out the details.
AMEND CIVIL-SERVICE BILL.
Nhanahan Offers a Measure In the Illi
nois Legislature.
Springfield, 111., March 23. Mr. Shan
ahan this morning introduced a bill
amending the civil-service bill In ac
cordance with Gov. Altgeld's desire. By
the terms of Shanahan's bill the salary
of each civil-service commissioner in
cities of more than 60,000 inhabitants
and less than 100,000 shall be $1,000 a
year and cities of from 25,000 to 60,000
$600, while not more than $2,000 a year
shall be expended for clerks, etc. The
salary of the chief examiner is fixed at
$100 a year.
Mr. Sterchlne introduced a bill limit
ing railroad fare within incorporated
cities to 5 cents between all stations.
Mr. Walleck Introduced a bill pro
viding a tax of 10 per cent on the gross
earnings of racing associations and
11ml ting racing to thirty days each
year.
Richard Taux It Dead.
Philadelphia, March 23. Richard
Vaux, ex-congressman and ex-Mayor
of Philadelphia, died at his home here
this morning of la grippe. He was
taken 111 over a week ago. Richard
Vaux was born in this city away back
In 1818, and his father, also Richard
Vaux, was the founder of Philadelphia's
present school system. The son served
as city recorder of Philadelphia, for
seven years, without pay, and he was
dereated three times in the mayoralty
race In 1842. 1845 and 1854 hut he arum
elected mayor in 1856. In 1858 he was
defeated again, and he subsequently
succeeded to the seat of the late Con
gressman Samuel J. Randall after th
tatter's death.
Rebel Leaders Killed.
Havana. March 23. The Governor of
Santiago province reports that on
March 18 General Garrich started from
Balre with 220 men.' The troona nvor.
took the rebels at Soils and killed five
men in a short time. Among the dead
were the rebel leaders Manuel and
Pacheco and the aid-de-camp Setrada,
4.11 of the arms and ammunition of the
ebels were captured.
St. Charles, Minn., In Flames.
Winona, Minn., March 23. A serious
Are broke out at St. Charles, twenty
two miles west of Winona. A request
for aid was received here this morning
and at 7:15 o'clock a detachment of fire
men with apparatus left for the scene.
Telegraphic communications with St.
Charles was entirely cutjoff at 8:35 a. m
Africans Sell Themselves Into Slavery
Zanzibar, March. 23. Drought and
locusts have caused widespread famine
In eastern equatorial Africa. Villages
have been depopulated and mission
schools and churches have been closed.
Many natives are selling themselves
and their children Into slavery to ob
tain food.
Pennsylvania Miners to strike.
Newcastle, Pa., March 23. At a mass
meeting representing 1,000 Beaver Val
ley miners yesterday it was decided
that unless the old scale of wages be
restored a strike would be ordered Sat
urday. The miners are getting 60 and
cents a ton, and want the old rate oC
10 and 70 cents.
Gov. Budd't Secretary Is a Woman.
Sacramento, Cal.. March 23. Gov.
Budd has decided to appoint a woman
as his executive secretary. She is Mlsa
Josephine Todman, a graduate of the
Hastings Law College, formerly a clerk
In Budd's office and latterly assistant
o the governor's private secretary.
Pugilist Sentenced to Prison.
Plattsmouth. Neb.. March 23. Pusrl-
Hst Lindsay of Omaha, who was con
victed of manslaughter for killing
Fletcher Robinson, a prize-fighter, last
fear, has been sentenced to the pent
ientlary for two years.
Hit Resignation Not Accepted.
Washington, March 23. Senor E. de
If uruaga, Spanish minister to the Unit
id States, admits the correctness of the
lablegram from Madrid stating that he
lad cabled his resignation and the Span
ah minister of foreign affairs had re
(used to accept it.
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