Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-08
ROUGH ON BEN.
Talk of His so.Oalled Peoples Party
Living After the Election the
VaRary of Cranks.
His Attempt to Destroy the National
Greenbaok Party and Use It for
Personal Revenge,
Retirement of the New York Leader
Of the Greenback Party Owing
to Buffers Rascality.

To National Greenbackers in the state of
New York;
Below you will find a copy Of the
first and only platform of principles
ever issued by the so-called Peoples
party, also speech delivered by Gen.
Butler before the convention which
adopted them:
PLATFORM
adopted by state convention of the
Peoples party held at Worcester,
Mass, September "a, 1884:
Public grants particularly of corporate
privileges and franchises, should be carefully
limited, and their exercise rlgidly supervised
each grant, in time ms well as results, should
be eXacted. Adequate returns to the COM
munity for future grants should be required
The public domain should be reserved for
actual settlement on condition OF Immediate
Improvement Future acquisitions OF the
farming and grazing lands now in the public
domain or in the railway land grants should
be limited to citizens OF the United States
and those who may declare their intentions
Differences between capital and labor
should be adjusted by arbitration, without
the violence and waste OF strikes and lock-
outs.
The laws regulating the hours OF labor the
employment Of minors, and the protection
OF health, life, and limb in the Industrial EN-
Payments ought 10 be enforced and Inn
proved.
We demand that convict labor shall not be
faro ed out in large gangs TO contractors, nor
employed TO tend highly organized or auto
matte machinery, nor in such manner as 10
ipJuriously compete with the work of the
law-abiding citizens
We hold that a tarifl should be as light as
possible on articles oil common consumption
not produced IN this country, and that such
necessaries OF life should be Tree; that import
duties on articles OF foreign production, also
produced in this country, should never be
less than the difference between the cost OF
American and foreign labor Involved In the
production, besides. in cases of articles sub.
ject TO domestic taxation, an added import
duty equal TO the domestic excise. Foreign
articles on which much labor has been eX.
pended should be more highly taxed than
those on which less labor has been expended.
Foreign articles OF common and general con-
sumption should be less highly taxed than
those of limited use and occasional consump-
ton. Luxuries should be taxed to the high.
est revenue poiot.
Current eXptnse OF the government should
be frugal and economical; but so long as The
revenue is ample and It's collection Is not Sc
riously burdensome, the existence of a sur
plus over ordinary expenditure ought not
TO be alarming, and the use OF such surplus
in permanent investments for the future
prosperity OF the nation, for the benefit OF its
trade and commerce, national honor, and for
the ease and convenience ofits citizens ought
rot 10 be niggardly. An adequate navy
should be built The Qualifications OF the
coast and frontier should be protected. The
necessary modern ordnance for armament
shou be founded and finished. The militin
should be organized, cared for, anh adequate
interest of trade and commerce should be
maintained and enlarged. Commercial, in
dustrial, and educational statistics should be
collected, compared, classified, and pub
ished. Educational deficiencies should he
remedied. Sufficient economical public build
ings for the transaction of public business
gh hA nr mn FFft cod al,
improvements for the better navigation of
rivers, harbors, and waterways should be
inhue, me clViillhllon OF the Indians should
be promoted. Post-office facilities should be
improved. Each of these expenditures should
be made with present economy, but each also
with n view that 10 is an Investment rather
than a current charge, and that the benefit
10 the public Will be "A future percentage of
Swings rather than an immediate return of
the whole.
We reassert in the words of our candidate
for the presidency: "That every species of
monopoly engenders two classes, the very
rich and very poor both of which are equally
hurtfui to a republic, which should give
every one of its people equal rights and
equal privileges under the law
We believe what is known as the Reagan
transportation bill now before ngress is "a
step In the right direction, and that some
act OF substantially Its scope should be
promptly passed.
We demand of the state the repeal of the
poll tax qualifications and the enactment OF
! a secret ballot law. We call upon the nation
and on all good citizens TO prevent for the
| future the farce OF pretended expression
of opinion by simulated ballot never cast by
voters, and by pretended elections where
| threats and inttmidations, and mt times open
! violence, interpose an impossible barrier
between the voters true opinion and the bal
| lot box.
We oppose the proposition for biennial
elections, all sorts ofdouble taxation, and all
Inflated and fictitious valuation of property
| Tor assessment, because purity OF adminlstrd,
| tion Is best obtained by speedy reckonings
| with the people, and prosperity and capacity
for expense best ascertained by accurate nc
counts.
Other resolutions reaflirm the plat
form of Gen. Butler at Chicago; de
mand law making employers liable
for accidents caused by neglect to sup.
ply appliances for safety from ma.
ehinery and from fire; demand the en-.
torcement of the national eight-houI
law and the state ten-hour law, and
the frequent payment of employees by
corporations, and the repeal of all un.
Just and unnecessary restriction in the
methods of registration.
GEN. nuTLER's SPEECH.
Mf. PRESIDENT and delegates OF the People',
party In convention assembled: | ventur,
70 appIopriate TO myself the kindness Will
when you nave greeted me, but / appropri
aye aye ana put TO the credit Of The peoples caus,
TINS representative assembly OF the best meI
In Mas aohusetts. You come here for no oh
leet which the truest patriot might not b,
proud 70 avow TO all the world. With n,
nope OF ONCE. with no desire for reward, bu
J Win the hope TO purify the old common
wealth and make her the eXemplar of goo,
government, you each come here acting ii
peace and harmony, as the people always d,
Whea lett TO themselves. You number, a
am informed, 1852 delegates
am very particular TO state your number
because The ordinary process is
. very different one, and the ordin
ary manner OF conducting polii
ical conventions IN this commonwealth
l. quite different on the Sd OF September
1854, convention was held In this city, a
which the committee on oredentials-and
eier 10 notes Will h Rhall hand 10 the re
, porieIs so that shall make no mlstakes-r6
ported To that convention ~ cities and 81
towns of the commonwealth. IL was luck
there were not more towns represented b
1850 delegates. When that cominittee adj
It's report Gen. Collins In announcing
made the remark "By this report IL I'm
pears there are some Democrats left In Massi
ehnsetts.n II that report was true. In M
3 judgment there were not many outside IN
: nall, and Mr. Avery. the Chairman
of the committee on resolution,