SHU ALLIAHOB-IHDBPBHDBH?,
THE PLATFORM.
Assembled upon tho one hundred and
Sixteenth anniversary of the Declaration
or Independence, tho People's Party of
America, in their first national convei-
tion, invoking UDon their action tho
blessing of Almighty God, puts forth in
the name nnd on behalf of the people of
this country, the following preamble and
declaration of principles:
h Tho conditions which surround us best
Justify our co-operation. Wo meet in tho
midst of a nation brought to the verge of
moral, political and material ruin. Cor
ruption dominates tho ballot bo;:, the leg
islatures, the congress, and touches even
tho ermine of the bench. The people are
demoralized. Most of the states havo
been compelled to isolate tho voters at tho
polling places to prevent universal in
timidation or bribery. The news
papers are largely subsidized or muzzled,
public opinion silenced, business pros
trated, our hemes covered with mort
gages, labor impoverished, nnd the land
concentrating in the hands of tho capital
ists. Tho urnan workmen are denied the
right of organization for self projection;
imported pauperized labor beats down
their wnges; n hireling standing army, un
recognized by our laws, is established to
fchoot them down, nnd they aro rapidly
degenerating into European conditions.
The fruits of the toil of millions are
boldly stolen to build up collosal fortunes
for a few, unprecedented in the history of
mankind, and tho possessors of these, in
turn, despise the republic and endanger
libertj. From the same prolific womb of
governmental injustice 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 bear
ing bonds, t hereby .adding millions to the
Duruens or tno people.
Silver, which has been accepted as coin
since the dawn of history, lins been
demonetized to add to the purchasing
power of gold by decreasing the value of all
xorms of property, as well as human labor,
and the supply of currency is purposelv
abridged to fatten usurers, bankrupt
enterprise and enslave industry. A vast
conspiracy against mankind has been or
ganized on two continents and is rapidly
tuking possession of the world. If not
met and over thro wa at onco it forebodes
terrible social convulsions, tho destruc
tion of civilization, or tho establishment
of an absolute despotism.
Wo have witnessed for more than a
quarter of a century tho strugdes of tho
two great political parties for power and
plunder, while grievous wrongs have been
inflicted upon a sufferin g peoDle. We charge
that the controlling influences dominating
both.these parties have permitted the exist
ing dreadful conditions to develop without
BCtious efforts to prevent or restrain them.
Neither do they now promise us nny
substantial reform. They havo agreed to
gether to ignoie in the coming campaign
every issue but one. They propose to
drown the outcries of a plundered people
with tho uproar of a sham battle over
the tariff, so that capitalists, corporations,
national banks, rings, trusts, watered
i tock, tho demonetization of silver, nnd
the oppressions of tho usurers may all be
lost sight of. They propose to sacrifice our
homes, lives and children on the altar of
mammon; ,f.Q - uestroy theTnultitudo in
order to secure corruption f uuds from the
- millionaires.
Assembled on the anniversary of the
birthday of the natiou, and filled with
the spirit of the grand generation who es
tablished our independence, we seek our
independence; wo seek to restore the gov
ernment of tho republic to tho hands
of "the plain people" with whose class it
originated.
AVa assert our purposes to be identical
with tho purposes of the national Con
stitution "To form a more perfect union,
establish justice, insure domestic tran
quillity, pre fide for the common defence,
Eromote the general welfare and secure tho
lessings of liberty for ourselves aud our
posterity." We declare that this repub
lic can only endure as a free government
while built upon the love ot the whole
people for each other and for the nation;
that it cannot, be pinned together by bay
onets', that tno civil war is over, and that
every passion and resentment which grew
-, oat of it musf die with it, and that we
must be in fact, as we are in name, one
united brotherhood of freemen.
Our country finds itself confronted by
conditions for which there is no precedent
in the history of the world our annual
Agricultural productions amount to bil
lions of dollars in value, which must
within a fevr weeks or months be ex
changed for billions of dollars of com
modities consumed in their nrcduction:
the existing currency supply is wholly in
adequate to make this exchange; the re
sults aro falling prices, the formation o
combines and rings and the impoverish
ment of the producing class. Wa
pledge ourselves I that if given
power we will Vlaoor correct
these evils by wisoVind reasonable leg
islation in accordance with the terms of
our platform. Wo beilevo that the rov-
the non gratulat ions of the old party
peopie ana tn teacnings ot experience
shall justify, to the end that oppression,
injustico and poverty shall eventually
cease in the land.
While our sympathies ns a party of re
form are naturally upon t he side of every
proposition which wUl tend to make men
flfnee we demand that all state and na
tional revenues shall be limited to the
necessary expenses of the government
economically and honestly administered.
Ninth We demand that postal savings
banks be established by tne government
for the safe deposit of the earning? of the
people and to facilitate exchange,
Tenth Transportation beiuar a means
of exchange nnd a public necessity
the government should own and operato
the railroads in the interest of the people.
Eleventh The telegraph and the tele
phone like the nostoftice system, being A
necessity for the transmission of news,
should l e owned and operated by the gov
ernment in the interest of the people.
Twelfth-Tho land, including all the
natural sources of wealth, is the heritage
of all the peoplo aud should not be mon
opolized for speculative purposes, and
alien ownership of land should be pro
hibited. All land now held bv railroads
aud other corporations in excess of their
actual needs, and all lands now owned by
aliens should be reclaimed by the govern
ment and held for actual settlers only.
The foil owing resolutions were also
adopted:
Whereas other questions have been pre
sented for our consideration, we hereby
submit the following, not ps a part of the
platiorm of the ..People's Party, but as
resolutions expressive of the sentiment of
this convention.
First Resolved. That wa demand a
free ballot and a fair count in all elections
find pledge ourselves to secure it to every
legal voter wituout federal intervention
through the adoption by the states of the
unperve. ted Australian or secret ballot
system.
Second Resolved, That the revenue
derived from a graduated income tax
should be applied to the reduction of the
burden of taxation now resting upon the
domestic industries of this country.
Third Resolved, That we pledge our
support to fair and liberal pensions to ex
Union soldiers and sailors.
Fourth Resolved, That 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, nnd crowds out our
wage earners; and we denounce the pres
ent ineffective laws against contract la
bor, and demand the further restriction
of undesirable immigration.
Fifth Resolved," That we cordially
sympathize with the efforts of organized
workinemen to shorten the hours of labor,
nnd demand a rigid enforcement of the
existing eight-hour law on government
work, and ask that n penalty clause be
added to the said law.
Sixth Resolved, That we regard the
intelligent, virtuous and temperate, wo
nevertheless regard these questions, im
portant as they are, as secondary to thtl
great issues now pressing for solution, and
upon which not only our individual pros
perity, but the very existence of free in
stitutions depend: and we ask all men to
first help us to determine whether wo
are to havea republic toadminister, before
wo differ as to the conditions upon which
it is to be administered, believing tha. the
forces of reform this day organi7ed
will never ceaso to move forward until
every wrong is remedied, equal rights
and equal privdegesare securely establish
ed for all the men and women of the
country.
We declare, therefore
Frrst That the union of the labor forces
of the United States, thi j day consum
mated, shall be permanent and perpetual.
May its spiri enter into all hearts for the
salvation of the Republic and tht uplifting
of mankind.
Second Wealth belongs to him who
creat is it, and every dollar taken from
industry without an equivalent is robbery.
"If any will not worV., neither shall he
eat." The interests of rural nnd civic
labor aro the same; their enemies are
identical.
Third We believe that the time has
come when the railroad corpora ions will
either own the people or the people
must own the railroads, and should
the government enter upon the
work of owning and managing
Rny or all railroads, wo should favor an
pmendment to tho Constitution by which
all persons engaged in the government
service shall be placed under a civil ser
vice regulation of the most rigid charac
ter, so as to prevent the. increase of tho
power of tho national administration by
the use of such additional government
employes.
lourth We demand that national cur
rency, safe, sound and flexible, issued by
the general government only, a full legal
tender for all debts, public and private,
and that without the use of banking cor
porations, a just, equitable and efficient
means of distribution direct to the
peoplo, at a tax not exceed-
playing into the hands of some Yepuuif1'
can who wants the ptece now filled by
payments in discharge of its obligations
for public improvements.
Fifth We demand free end unlimited
coiuage of siiver pnd gold at the present
legal ratio of 10 to 1.
Sixth Wc demand that the amount of
tne circtilatinjr medium be f-ecdily in
creased to not les? than tiO per capita.
Seventh We demand a graduated in
come tax.
Eighth We believe that the money of
the country should be kept as much as
possible in the hands of the people, and
maintenance of a large standing army of
mercenaries, known as the Pinkerton
system, as a menace to cur liberties, and
we demand its abolition; and we con
demn the recent invasion of the territory
of Wyoming by the hired assassins of
plutocracy, assisted by federal officials.
Seventh Resolved. That we commend
to the favorable consideration of the peo
ple and th i reform press the legislative
system known as the initiative and re
ferendum. Eighth Resolved. That we favor a
constitutional provision limiting the
office of president and vice president to
one term, and providing for the election
of senators of ,he United States by a di
rect vote of the people.
Ninth Resolved. That we oppose any
subsidy or national aid to any private cor
poration for any purpose.
Resolved, That this convention sympa
thizes with the Knights of Labor in their
righteous contest with the tyrannicil com
bine of clothing manufacturers of Roches
ter and declares it to bo the duty of all
who hate tyranny and oppression to refuse
to purchase the goods mado by said man
ufacturers or to patronize any merchants
who sell such goods.
"The People's Party at the outset to
secure permanent control of the party
organization unaffected by the interests
of those in public servi jo does hwreby :n
national convention assembled at Omaha,
on this $th day of July, 1892, establish this
ordinance as fundamental law of party
organisation, vi.:No person holdingany of
fice or posit on of profit, trust or emolument
under the federal or any state or munici
pal government, including senators, con
gressmen and members of the legislature,
state and local, shall be eligible to sit or
vote in any convention of this party, and
a copy of this ordinance shall be annexed
to every call for any future convention of
the party.
Jiere's a Question,
Secretary of the Treasury Foster,
in his official report for tho year 1891.
ignores the circulation of the T-'O
notes as a part of our currency in
18G5, giving the circulation per capita
in that year as $20.57. while placing
the per capita circulation in 181 at
$23.41. Mr. Foster did not ig-nore
the 7-30 notes as a part of the circu
lating medium of this country when
in lbbb Mr. (. L. Donneis of Uibson
burg. Sandusky county. Ohio, pur
chased of Mr. Foster eighty acres of
land and tendered in paymont the
whole amount in 7-30 notes that he
(Mr. Donneis) had received from the
government for his services in the
army. Mr. Foster at that time con
sidered 7-80 bonds as currency, ac
cepted them in payment for his farm,
and recognized them as part of the
circulating medium of the count y.
If they were good currency in 1(6 in
payment for a farm why not currency
when he makes a report in 1891?
Does his relation to the currency as a
private citizen change when he be
comes a government olicial? When
ever the secretary of the treasury
desires to inform the peoplo of the
amount of money we have in circu
lation he includes in "his statements
all the reservea silver bullion and
coin, and all other money in the
treasury, to make the amount aj
large as possible. Rut when he de
sires to give Wall street con idenco in
the financial stability of the govern
ment ho makes the statement that the
amount of reserves in the hands
the govern rent includes these
serves, buluou. go.d and silvnr
etc. How they ; a:i bo in circulation
and in the treasury at the samo time
is what we would like to know.
Plow and Hammer.
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re-
com.
Our new song, entitled -'The Weakes
Must Go to the Wall," gets in some
tremendous blows against the money,
land and transportation monopolists
and shows bow the ballot box rxust
give protection to the weak. This is a
four plate song which no independent
club, alliance or labor organization can
P.O. Box 86ir TT
For Sale,
One of the best farms in the state. Ad
joins the town of Clarkson. on the
Albion branch of the F., E. & M. V.
railway, also on the line of the new
Central Nebraska, contains 400 acres, a
three-room house, barn 32x31. stable
14x40, double corn crib and other cut
buildiDgs with three wells, yards and
sheds, a bearing orchard with grove and
abundant timber for use, 150 acres plow
land. 120 acres fenced with wire, 1C0
acres pasture with living water, balance
in prairie meadows producing an
abundance of prairie bay, with school
house on the place; will sell entire or
divide to suit pui chaser. For particu
lars call on or address
Wm. A. G. Cobb,
4-t4 Fremont, Neb.
You are hearing a good deal about
"an honest dollar." We havo a song on
that subject. All people's party clubs
must, have it. It sweeps the field. Look
it up in our li y..
PureBre) Poultry. White Plym
outh Rock. A'hite Games Partridge
Cochins. Tou ouse Geese, White Hol
land Tnrk(;s, White Guineas, Pekin
Ducks. Eggs in season. Prices low.
W. A. Bates, Jr.,
Fremont, Neb. 36 tf
The Alliance Independent
till after election for 25 cents.
S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS
CHOIGESTPEN
OF
Thoroughbreds
In the western
Btates.
Eggs per set
ting of 15. f 1.50
Exorc 88 cbnr's ore
paid when two set
tings are onto
r 12 chicks 4 to 6 days old in
a liirbt caw with he i li CO
W.J HICKOX, Alma, Neb
Mention this
paper. 4Ur
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J. M. ROBINSON
KENESAW, ADAMS CO., NEB.
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Breeder and ship-
!er of recorded Po
and China hogs.
Choice breed ng
stock fir eale.
Write for wants.
Mention Alliancv.
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FURNAS Co HERD
BIG BERKS.
iinvrvrmJi Beaver City, - Neb.
Thoroughbred exclusively. All ages,
Eitht-r Bex. Sows bred. Istock guaranteed as
represented. Pi ices rifiht. Mentis-n this
paper. H.S.Williamson, Prop'r. 43
L. H. SUTER,
Neligh, Neb.
Breeder of fancy
Poland China
swine and P. K.
fowls. Majority of
pigs Bired by Free
Trhdes Best. Remainder by Paddys Chip and
Lytles Dundy. Free Trades Beet is Bired by
Free Trade, the great ehow heg ihat was so d
lor 1800.00, bo ng tho highest priced hog in
existence. Had a Tull Bister to Free Trade in
my herd for 3 years and have may flip bws
from her. L. H. Suter.
ROOFING
GUM-ELASTIC ROOFING FELT costs only
82.00 per 100 Equare feet. Makes a gooa roof
for years and any eno ran put it cn.
GUM-ELASTIC PAINT costs only 60 cents
per gal. in bbl. lots or $4 50 for frgal. tubs.
Color dark red. Will stop leaks in tin or iron
roofs that wi 1 laBt for years. Try it.
8end stamp fer samples and full partiuclars.
. Gum Elastic Roofing Co..
3 & 41 West Broadway, New York.
4-Sra
Loral A rent Wanted.
HflS
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PAINTERS,
2045 M Street, Lincoln, Neb..
DOUBLE
BrtMB-Loadcr
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