MAJRCH 8, 1894
THE ALLIANCE -INDEPENDENT.
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OCR NATIONAL PLATFORM.
The People's Party Platform Adopted
at Omaha July 4.1892.
Assembled upon the 116'h anniversary
of the Declaration of Independence, the
People's part j of America, in their first
national convention, invoking upon
their action the blessings of Almighty
3od, puts forth in the name and on be
half of the people of this country the
following preamble acd declaration of
principles:
PREAMBLE.
The conditions which surround us
best justify our co-operation. We meet
in the midst of s nation brought to the
verge of moral, political and material
rnln. 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 iso
late the voters at the polling places to
pre ventuniversal intimidation or bri
bery. The newspapers are largely sub
sidized or muzzled, public opinion
silenced; business prostrated; our homes
covered with mortgages; labor impover
ished and the land concentrating in the
hands of capitalists. The urban work
men are denied the right of organiza
tion for self protection; imported pau
perized labor beats down their wages, a
hireling standing army, unrecognized
by our laws, is established to shoot
them down; and they are rapidly de
generating into European conditions.
The fruits of the toll of millions are
hoMlv stolen to build up colossal for
tunes for a few, unprecedented in the
hostory of mankind; and the possessors
.of these, in turn, despise the republic
and endanger liberty. 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 en
rich 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
demonetized to add to the purchasing
power of gold by decreasLg the value
of all forms of property as well as hu
man labor, and the supply of currency
is purposely abridged to fatten usurers,
bankrupt enterprise and enslave Indus
'tries. A vast conspiracy against man
kind has been organized on two conti
nents and it is rapidly taking possession
of the world. If not met and over
thrown at once, it forebodes terrible
eoclal convulsions, the destruction of
civilization or the establishment of an
absolute despotism.
We have witnessed for more than
quarter of a century the struggles
of the two great political parties
lor power and plunder, while griev
ous wrongs have been inflicted
upon a suffering people. We charge
that the controlling influences dominat
ing both theee parties have permitted
the existing dreadful conditions to de
velop, without 6eriouj efforts to prevent
or restrain them. Neither do they now
promise us any substantial reform.
They have agreed together to ignore,
in the coming campaign, every issue
but one. They propose to drown the
outcries of a pluudered people with the
uproar of a sham battle over the tariff,
o that capitalists, corporations, nation
al banks, rings, trusts, watered stock,
the demonetization of sliver and the
-oppressions of the usurers may all be
lost sight of. They propo-e to sacrifice
our homes, lives and children on the j
altar of mammon; to destroy the multi
tude In order to secure corruption funds
from the millionaires.
Assembled en the anniversary of the
birthday of the nation and filled with
the spirit of the grand generation
which established our independence,
we seek to restore the government of
the republic to the hands of "the plain
people," with whom it originated.
o We assert our purposes to be identical
with the purposes of the national con
stitution: 'To form a more periect
union, establish Justice, insure dorres
tic tranquility, provide for tbo common
defence, promote the general welfare,
and sejuro tho blessing of liberty to
ourselves and our posterity."
We il. oUro that this republic can only
endure a a free government while built
upon the love of the whole people for
each other and for the nation; that It
cannot be pinned togett. by bayonets;
that the civil war U ove and that
every aion and rebutment which
grew out ot It must die with it, and
that we mutt b in fact m we are la
name, the united brotherhood of free
OH'tl.
Our country fled tUelf confronted by
condition fur which there U no prvce
dentin toe hlury of the world; our
aeoa! agricultural pruetloa amount
to billion of dollar la va'ue, which
must within a tvn week or wont! 1
etehc ii fir blllioMol dollars of cow
module cvutuiud la Iftelr produetlo;
the tiUUtf run very supply U wholly
lftl4iat la ftlt this (; the
rwU am Utile ptUw;, tie formation
eoub'ate at rUg and the tm
Ht-rUfcmvttif h nluct g !..
We !Je pui tha, If give
!'r, we Ut lUr t ooirt tfce
evil by Ue end rvatoashle ttgl
tt' le vdaioe with the Wit
4 eur ileWufM We kIWve that
the power et geral-U eUtr
weeds, el the pt,le-hHl4 be
e)iaded ( U t l tie puelal
service) at rapidly and as far as the
good sense of an intelligent people and
the teachings of ex perience shall justify,
to the end that oppression, injus
tice and poverty eha'l tventually
cease in the land.
While our sj mpathie as a party of
reform are nrturally upon the aide of
every proposition which will tend to
make men intelligent, virtuous and
temperate, we neve' tbeW regard
these questions, important it they are,
as secondary rr.-t issues now
pressing for 6o.u ion. and upon which
not only our individual prosperity, but
the very exisei.ee of free Institutions
depend: and we ask all men to first
help us to determine whether we are to
have a republic to administer, before
we differ as to the conditions upon
which it is to be administered. Believ
ing that the forces of reform this day
organized will never cease to move
forward until every wrong is remedied,
and equal rights and equal privileges
securely established for all men and
women of the country, therefore:
WE DECLARE
First That the union of the labor
forces of; the United States, this day
consummated, shall be permanent and
perpetual." 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 will not work, neither
shall he eat." The interests of rural
and civic labor are the same; their ene
mies identical.
Third We believe that the time has
come when the railroad corporations
will either own the people or the people
mus own the railroads, and should the
government enter upon the work of
owning and managing any or all rail
roads, we should favor an amendment
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to tbe constitution by which all persons
engaged in the government service
shall be placed under a civil service
regulation of the most rigid character;
so as to prevent the Increase of the
power of the national administration by
the use of such additional governueut
employees.
PLATFORM.
We demand a national currency, safe,
sound and flexible, Issued by the gene
ral government only, a full legal tender
for all debts, publlo and private,
and that without the use of
bunking corporations; that a just, equit
able and tfllclent m of distribution
d'u oi't to the H.o.l, i i Ux not to ex
eoed two per cent, per annum, to bo
provided, aiseti r: li In tbe eubtrcaiiury
plan ol the Farmcre' Alliance, or ionic
bettor system; alto by pay men's In dis
charge of its obligations for public Im
provements. We demand the freo and unlimited
coinage of stiver add gold at the preM-nt
legal rath of l to 1.
We demand that tht amount of circa
lathjf medium b pd Ij lncrtrd t
not k's than 1-0 r eaplta.
We demand a Krluc4 Income tax.
We evllove that the money of the
country should be kept a mut a as p
alb! la the head of the jopU, a4
hace we demand that all stale and
salkat reveeut ehil Ixi UutlUd ta
the aeooMtty etpvam tt the gura
iaat, ecoaoiuloally and htaU) at
BtlitWWirvd.
We .Umand thai fmm MUtaf Wake
be'ab:Uh4 b Ut graMtal, for
the te dvp Vtef the earalagi tit the
(.le, an 1 le facilitate ii'ttMr,
TriahrUlita btUi aaa tit et
heage and a pahiid awwneHy, the fo
erttmeat hmi and iae tk
railroads la the lawrvat wf the pwole
The e)rak aad teUfheae, like
U preWKtMi ayiVsa betsg eiity
for transmission of news, should be
owned and operated by the government
in the interest cf the people.
The land, including all the natural
resources of wealth, is the heritage of
all the people, and should not be mono
polize d for speculative purposes, and
alien ownership ef land should be pro
hibited. All lands now held by rail
roads and other corporations in excels
of their actual need', and all lands now
owned by aliens, should be reclaimed
by the government and held for actual
settlers only.
A Plea for Radical!-in.
Editor AliiANca-IsDEPENDENT.
Wa there ever a time in the history
of the world when those in control were
more aggretshely radical in shaping
events to their selfish purposes than
at the present time?
Think of Cleveland disobeying the
silver purchase law, the Geary Law and
the proposed illegal issue of bonds!
Think of the courts deciding that the
Knights of Luor have no standing in
court and cannot enjoin anyone, not
even to prevent disobedience to law!
Then think of the courts at the de
mand of a corporation reducing the
wagsof the Knights and enjoining
them to prevent a strike, thus prevent
ing them from having any voice as to
the amount of wages they are to re
oelve! Think of the courts enjoining
the Master Workman of tbe Knights to
prevent him from going among the
members of his order to talk his princi
ples! From these expressions of corporation
radicalism on. the pa; t of tho courts and
executive it would seem the great
common people have no rights the cor
pora' ions are b uind to respect.
Corporations rule the world. They
keep In position Klcgs, Queens and
Emperors. They set up presidents and
obtain majorities in all law making
bodies. They are aggressively radical
in extending and maintaining their
chartered privileges.
All laws for their benefit and pros
perity are rigidly enforcd; laws for
their control remain a dead letter.
The great majority deny the right of
tho corp 'ration to fence the whole
world, enjoy all its blessings and en
slave all its poplatlon. Thoro are very
few who aggressively and rallcUly pit
against tbe corporations, thu natura',
Inailicnable rights of the whole people.
la this country thoso opposing corpo
ration cruf ', cuuning aud rule aro In tho
I'opUiUt parly, aud with them are mtny
cocHrvatlves.
With the exprosted and implied do
Ipo t"f the corporations to cruh with
law or without law all opposition to
their schemes of self-aggrandizement,
bow any one hoae-Uy oppt'ilng th-m
raa be a conservative Ua iuytry to u.
To oppone corp ration radicals with
consrvatUio would end ta ejcl slav
ery for the poor walc kneed oonsorva
tivw. CouM the radicals who orund the
Ufpu j.Uao arfy Le U"ii krpl In the
Ua4 we would eot toUy m d anuther
parly. If tbe pMty had Miowvd the
lead tif Thadsooa Cloven the f rora
hek would R have biea cringed by
the saceptiwa ttaee and oo third tbe
eipJOHssuf the tte war would have
We avd. If Macula ha I orvd tul
hit stvoiid U'rra the itro Im el the
earrttef tklAud the peMo of 113
would tut have liv (1ik. Could the
uld radWal, Horace (irveley, have ea
aomlatWd by hU party i i i ijr
rvacy Wad wwu!4 l-vvap lave Ua
fkaed ta ed hmi, with kU vvke
wnnld have 4fo4 theea tetry tt,.
X0 llJ he bva!,a U HTi.tl
would lot aavt We UeosoetUa d.
tWfwee kU dsaUt Ike warty red Lift
' 1 "" ..... --. ' 1 ' --
coin saw h i party bad enthroned the
corporations, and it broke tbe heart of
tbe radical Horace Gre-ley to think bi '
child, Ibe Republican party, had become
a conservative party controlled by
baks and bondholders.
Could Jefferson aud Jacason return
to earth and behold the slavery and
want of thoe they labored to make free
and independent could they see that
their child, the Democratic party, had
turned traitor to the people, turned
traitor to Its declarations aid tradition,
no doubt, if these men could, they
would "sweat great drops of blood.
When we go to an independent
gathering of any kind and hear men tf
talent entertainingly discourse on the
beauties and winning qualities of the
conservative leader, when we hear them
talk of tbe unlimited strength a con
servative platform would add to our
party, we cannot help the thought that
they ought to receive largo pay from
the corporations. Our prayer is, do
not forgive tberu, for they know what
they do and how to do it. Then we ask
a kind Father never to permit the In
dependent party to come to the front
with a lot of conservatives in the lead,
who would deny their master a dozen
times before the cock has time to crow
once.
No! No! the Populists must meet
and defeat the radicalism of those who
would enslave tbe people, and destroy
the republic. They must destroy the
unlimited taxing power of the railroads
by providing for government ownership
and operation at cost price to the peo
ple. A postal savings bant la every poBt
office to do a loan and discount business
for the people at cost price, as advocat
ed by tho Populists, would take away
from the banks and Wall street the
power to start a financial crash any
ilme, by simply refusing and drawing
in loans.
The government must take charge of
all coal lands and mines and furnish
coal to the consumers at cost price.
Government ownership and manage
ment of the railroads, banking and coal
corporations would settle the?e great
questions so they would not bother our
posterity any more than chattel slavery
troubles us.
Three-fourths of the people aro In
favor of theae just measures, but are
prevented from enacting them tntw law
by the conservatives that control the
old parties.
If the Populists arcrpt any settlement
of tha-e grrat questions less radical
they will disappoint the people and
will utterly fall to maintain and secure
to the people their natural, Inatlt liable
and just rlgbta. Co.nsi kvativc.
io You llrlieve It?
"There U an evil under tho sun and
It I o romon am. eg turn: A man to
wnoiu U h! hattt Kivun rlcheo, wraith,
ami honor, Hn.i he wan'mh nolulnu
lr hi twin of all that hdlrwtb, y l
O d tftvetb h'm eot the powvr t tat
ihi-n of, but a tragcr oa eh l'l thl U
v lty, and it U an evltd ." Tbe
II. We.
The qui'tiloa vf t dy, the meey
uliott, I out a new oue a tde atave
qu-talloa froia the ' toe of lUvtd. King
ta Jtrutloiu' show.
s j'oiimq la it Kr of bl wltdi ru
looted hroh the afe Jt i oie
aud wbraktta d "There It g. seraUon
UvS are m td, and thvir
jWth a kitf V Uveur Ibe otr
fnon tit the tarlh, a 4 the frm
awoof kHi, "did ke wta tM yu
rat! a?
It wit eot a (wr mi rntl f bi
rk'H !kb?r, wh Uitiu otor
(HiUd. Il was suit a Wnt aoeM'
wtMlai ewpif t4H2ete trf l
tleh Ual ke a'gk I Ms , rhw
are k wrd el Ike g ee st aauacy
king of tbe oldea tiaiet i the wisest man
the earth has ever knvtn.
Thls Is vanity and It fa an evil dU
ease." How it has spreei among tbe
people! until today it Is jJ valent among
the high and low. A ctn4-rous disease
polluting the heart of matl vith poison
ous germs of greed and self kness, that
grow, flourish and choks o
of liberty and justice.
germs
"This Is vanity." Our rl
a perish
with us, tot a single iaven
how
wbich ever delicate the parchment
it may be written, can the un
"aimed
soul bear across the border,
ow
what be possessed in this world ad
for him a desirable place la the
land. He must write with
fingers "my last will and testamel
and leave it though the price of
soul, to be eaten by strangers.
The thought ploughs furrows in
brow, turns his hair gray and drives!
nail after nail in bis coffin.
Care with a fiendish grin takes his
throne in the poor throbbing heart and
holds high carnival, until death lays a
sympathizing hand upon him, saylog:
"Poor soul, your burden is too heavy;
leive it all behind and come with me."
He places the key In Its mysterious lock
and tin freed soul bounds forward, free
at last from the fotttrs of care, and his
servants, selfishness and greed, to find
that his inheritance war of the earth
and that he had no treasure in heaven.
How long shall the disease spread and
flourish? Is there no cure? Must we
endure tbe tortures, the Intense suffer
ing occasioned by It? Must our children
and our children's children inherit
the malady?
Is any one seeking fame? Let him
present a cure, a disinfectant to prevent
its spread, and the coming generation
will honor his same, and he shall be
considered a blessing to earth.
Will 0 The Wisp.
Box Butte, Neb.
A New Kind of Crop Rotation.
Editor Alliance-Indkpbndent:
The agricultural papers keep telling
the farmers they must rotate tbelr crops
and their stock if they want to be suc
cessful. And they, the farmers, have rotated
from wheat to corn, from corn to oats,
from oa!s to barley, rvo and flax; and
loot from horses to cattle, from cattle
to hogs, from hogs to sheep. And some
have been rotated out of house and
homo by the sheriff, while they wore
rotating around, trying to make an
hooet llv'ngifor themselves and fami
ne. And they can't understand why It
Is that they don't succeed. They know
that they have worked hard themselves
and a 1 members of their hmlllct have
d no tbo same. Fri.ru early to late
thy have sold alt thy could sell, and
what no one would buy they have und
theinelvri. Thry have worn their old
clothes until th rag men would not
ttke the in at a gift. They have dentrd
Uu mwlv, their wivt-a and children
tliu clothv and 1h) they ought to
have hail, and stilt they are worse off
than before.
t till you brother farmers you have
not Khb rutaUn In the rig hi field at
rlhl time.
Now don't tay you know betur far the
fcu thoe for tbemlve, that you
have n l done to. I know thai you are
alt aotloo what tny plan u( rotation ,
and beiti r tt ha ba Ihumukly
tried tad how far Ike femurs eaa wake
um of It, I will ty tl kae bea
lKort)ii 'y 'fid t vul of Ike -
I rra ltt t axj k ftva food rMlU
I I ... ft ILU.I ItW A.I ft t 1
a f !! tHis K the Urr the
a u uH'i'Mkmi It The fiiaat l
euiwt l a .w b i e tUorwui gruwer
U ih Urmr wilt wy d t k' jarl !
ward eulvetla It &telt aad lalrw
due tl eta kt e!kerau4 fr leads
offc
JSfc
turn
4 buy
tremUlg
via.
It will double his income.
Now what must we rotate? Ia what
field must we coamnct? We must
commence in tbe political gId aad rc
tate all the old party pjliUolans out of
office, from road overseer to president
of the United States; and keep an eye
on all publio officers and as soon a
they show signs of running to monopoly
rotate them out and put in honest men.
And don't do It half and half; for re
member the good book says: We must
sot put new wine in old casks as that
would spoil the wine.
Nor must we patch an old garment
with new cloth, ai that would only
make the rent larger In tkeend. Now
brother farmers, let us all practice this
kind of rotation and cultivate it with all
our might. Let us rotate the rascals
OUt. Your rftawntfnllv
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v W. V Wicun.n
fcushvllle. Veb.
Melt
at One Thlako of the Cheap Ke-
pnDiican rapere.
r Alliancb-Indepekdevt:
e other day I was looklnar over oaa
of
tpapers oeionging to tbe subsl-
diziiA bress and I noticed an artl.
mentlaaded la large capitals "Cheap
neadMatter. It went on to any,
"ImprA emontln Machinery and Large
Volumu V Business Responsible."
Now l seems a nice dish of hash.
Bat whale want to know la. fa it tm
that thoraiVs been so much improve
ment in th fay of printing during the
last year tn
. .
C w un mo
hat readit
, matter has become so
cheap? I do h i believe It
Again, are 11 newspaper men dolnsr
such altrge vft'ine of business these
hard times thaile are able to nut na
prices so as to al!ta give their papers
away to their suhAbers? I do not be
lieve that either. do not HoIUm th .
Is the reason wky Lioooln State
Journal la able to in tract with the
Chicago Weekly Inta Pcean, whereby
It can give that paper ind the Journal
semi-weekly for one wK9e year for the
mull mm nt II K Inli ...V-
vu.um.smm v .n Vt M LVOV i 1 Lid I
Take the Railway Corpa ttlon and Shy-
lock boodle from behind 1 and it could
not do it. Samson would! ie shorn of
his locks.
The whole subsidized praAlof today
Is nothing else than the pv tools of:
tbe Shylocks acd Plutocrats S flo tbelr
dirty, lying work for them, toV Urcpre-
. aa K,
sentthe truth, to throw chafl In the'
eyes of the people and so bllQ them
that they cannot see the truth, agkUhua
haul In a big net full of suckernQext
November. 1
sat, thank God, the common p
are getting their eyes opened day
oay ana weeic Dy weelc to tbe ta
nature of things.
History is only repeatlnir itself.
fore the late civil war, did not the slave
holders try to push slavery on every!
border state? Did they not keen push
ing till at Ian it terminated in war?
Now what are our bondholders doing
today? Are they not pushing bonds on
the people to make them and their
children, yea, children's children, to
the third and fourth generations, bond
men and bondwomen? If the people
do not arise in their might and say by
their votes this state of things shall not
be, so it will be.
May God help us to see before it is
too late. For I, as an old man, do not
want a repetition of 1860 to 1805, which
must surely come if the people do not .
see where they are drifting.
Wm, Steele.
Hampton, Hamilton Co., Neb.
Where to Chalk Them.
Senator Allen of Nebraska says: "It
la necessary to chalk a Democrat in
order to tell him from a Republican."
Very well put. But you Bhould chalk
the Republican In front and the Demo
crat on his back for the Democrat h?
been advancing backward since tbe
time of Thomas Jefferson, and haa
pretty nearly reached the aristocratic
plutocratic platform of Alexander Ham
ilton. But tho deserters from this
crabrIgado are forming a regiment by
themselves, D ied with tbe old spirit of
their party Ex.
We don't liko ta take Senator Allen
out of tho aonate but we second hie
noinlnotion for president mtde by Tun
Allunck-Indki'kndknt, and would
suggest the name Waton for vtoe prea
tdent. Tccumwa Republic.
To tho land of Kd Ar.pl via the
M ourl t'vtcillo route i'uo. M. for one
fare for the round trio gud 3U day.
Cad on I'hll lUulel. C, I. & T. A. I AH
O street Lincoln, Neb,
Call on (too. Natwuian 9t Co. for
earrta4t. wa-on, binder, and all
farm iu,lomeu. We'll uw ye riftt-
WALTER BAKER & GO,
COCOA and
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