The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-21

ing upon the civilized world and the new
and living issues confronting the American
people, we believe the time has arrived fo
the Capitalization of the political reform
FORCES OF our country and the formation O.
what should be known as the PEOPLES party
OF the United States of America.
2-That we most heartily endorse the
demands OF the platforms adopted at ST
Louis, Mo-, in 1889; in Ocala, Fla, in 1891
and in Omaha in 1891 by the industrial or
carnations there represented, summarized
as follows:
The right to make and issue money is G
sovereign power to be maintained by tht
people for the common benefit. Hence we
demand the abolition of national banks as
Danhs OF Issue, and as assubstitute for ma
tlonal bank notes we demand that lega
| tenoer notes be issued in sufficient volume
10 transact the business of the country or
cash OASIS without damage or especial ad
vantage to any class or calling, such notes
to be legal tender in payment of all debts
PuDllc and private, and such notes wher
demanded by the people shall be loaned tt
them at not more than per cent. per an
mum upon non-perishable products as in
dlcated in the sub treasury plan. and also
upon real estate with proper limitation
upon the quantity of land and amount OF
money.
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quantity of silver.
I'VE demand the passage of laws pro
nloltlng alien ownership of land and that
Congress take prompt action to devise some
plan to obtain all the lands now owned by
alien and foreign syndicates, and that all
land held by railroads and other corpora
lions in excess of such as is actually used
and needed by them be reclaimed by the
government and held for actual settlers
only.
1--WE believe in the doctrine of equal
| rights to all and special privileges to none.
| we demand that taxation, national,
state, or municipal, shall not be used to
build up one interest or class at the expense
| of another.
ave demand that all revenues, national,
state, or county, shall be limited to neces-
sary expense and government economi-
cally and honestly administered We de.
mand just and equitable system of gradu-
| ated taxes on income. :.
I'VE demand the most rigid. honest and
Just national control and supervision of the
means OF public communication and trans
| portatlon, and If this control and superyis-
Ion 90 not remove the abuses now existing.
we demand government ownership of such
means OF communication and transporta-
ton.
1--WE demand that the election of Presi-
Gent, Vlce-President and United States
Senators be by direct vote of the people.
We urge action by all progressive organiza-
tlons In attending the conference called for
oy tue SIX leading reform organizations
That a national committee be appointed by
tnls conference to be composed of three
members from each state represented. to
be named by each state. That this central
committee shall represent this body and at
tend the national conference February %.
lo52, and II possible unite with that and ali
other reform organizations there assem-
Dled. If no satisfactory arrangement
can be effected, this committee shall call
national convention not later than June
l, 1872, for the purpose of the nomination
OF candidate for President and Vice
President. That the members of the cen
tral committee for each state where there
Is no independent political organization
conduct an active system of political
agitation in their respective states
ne name OF the new party shall be the
Peoples party of the United States.'
rms elected magnificent outhurst of
applause, and as each plank was read the
cheering was renewed frequently and the
great hall seemed to reverberate continu-
ously.
At this stage the convention was little
better than howlipe. mob. and in the
midst OF the confusion G. M. Miller, of
o.
nlbltlon question, which had been ignored
In the platform and resolutions. All efforts
10 choke him OFF with points of order were
lnefectual. The resolution offered by him
was brief, but to the point 1t said: ere
solved. That we favor the abolition of the
liquor traffic"
Fifty orators clamored for recognition.
put the hrst to succeed was Schillin, of
Wisconsin. He declared himself a STRONG
m hnt no =
OF the question of prohibition at this time,
the resolution being fully considered and
voted down by the committee on platform
10 spring 1t now was plainly throwing a
hrebrand into the convention, and in his
opinion deliberate attempt to cause a
split. After another awful uproar the pro-
hibltion amendment was overwhelmingly
oe1eated. The resolutions were then
adopted with only three dissenting votes.
The following resolution. introduced hv
Mason A. Green, of Massachusetts, in be-
half OF the Nationalist, was referred tn
various reform bodies for their considera-
ton:
'REsoLvED, That when, in the course of
business consultations, in the form of
trusts or private syndicates, it becomes
evident any branch of commerce is used
for the behoof and profit of few men at
the expense of the general public. we believe
commerce through their national, state or
Municipal administration"
Additional resolutions were presented
That the question of UNIVERSAL suffrage he
recommended to the favorable considera-
tlon of the various states and territories
that while the party in power has pledged
the faith of the nation to pay in coin the
debt contracted on deprecated currency
basis and payable in currency, thus addinG
nearly 81, ZOO, 100000 to the burdens of the
people, which meant gold for bondholders
and deprecated currency for the soldiers
and holding that the men who imperiIed
their lives to save the nation should be paid
in money as good as that paid to bond
holders, we demand the issue of legal
tender treasury notes in sufficient
amount to make the pay of the soldier equal
to par with coin, or such other legislation as
shall do equal and exact justice to the union
soldiers OF this country, that the eight
hour day principle should be extended to
apply to all corporations employing laborin
different states of the union: that this CON
terence condemns, in unmeasured terms
the action of the directors of the World,s
fair in refusing minimum rate of wages. },
Also resolution calling on the attorney
general to submit the act providing for the
opening OF Oklahoma to homestead settle
ment to the supreme court at the earliest
Po'"totS hiouCnG ouae seGtlerS may under
stand the lawful and constitutional mean
ing of said act and put stop to ruinous
litigation
A resolution against trusts was choked
Off by point of order raised by Schilling.
OF Wisconsin, that all resolutions should be-
referred to the committee on resolutions
without being read. Then the convent on
got down to business again, and the matter
OF choosing national committee was taken
up Chairman Weaver, who had relieved
Pfeffer, declared welcome recess.
After recess the roll of states was called
for members of the national committee the
convention adopting the innovation of an
pointing three members from each state
instead of one 1namhar as tho ala ,.....:S.