The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-11-26
NATIONAL ADDRESS.

Constituents
ISDIASAPoLIs Ind. Nov. 21.-The
national executive committee of the
peoples party yesterday issued the fol
lowing address:
The national committee OF the peoples
party of the United States dee m IL proper to
lay before their constituents at this time
some statement OF the results Of the confer
ences held by them with various representa-.
tIves OF organized Industry in this city dur.
ing the past few days These results have
been In every respect most satisfactory.
There Is no longer any coubt that candidates
for president and yice-presIdent will
be In the field before June |, lse2, nominated
by the peoples party. Il seems to US very
plain that the time has come when no infiu.
ence OF the old politica organic ltions ane
no power OF aggregated captll can prevent
the hearty and unanimous coming together
and CO. cooperation OF all the labor forces o.
the United States, whether employed In the
workshop, or in the mine or on the farm.
This is an important event in the history
of the nation and of civilized man-thert
has been no precedent for il in any OF the
past ages. The pro oiucing classes hav,
hitherto remained impoverished in the
midst of the very plenty which they ere.
ated. Those who toiled not have possessed
the wealth OF the world, while those who
toiled have too often suffered for the
of civilization and universal education have
flooded the minds of the multitude with an
ocean of light, and taught them the supreme
necessity for CO. operation in defense of the
inborn rights of humanity. The producing
classes of the United States are the nation
ali others simply live by the tolls imposed
on the industry OF the workers. To make nc
war upon the non producers, as such, some
of them render the people a full equiv yaleni
of services for all they receive; others are
robbers and piunderers who, through the
imperfection of our laws, strip toll of its pos
sessions and do not go to the penitentiary.
The people have behell with growing
alarm the continual advance OF condition,
which every day have carried us farther and
farther away from the principles and tradi-
tions OF the founders of the republic. and
nearer and nearer to AN abyss in which we
can see only a crushing oligarchy or the
dreadful alternative of revolution and an
archy. 1t is for the purpose of saving free
institutions, by the peaceful instrumental
ties of education and the ballot, that the
peoples party of the United States has
been organized No honest man can fai!
to acknowledge the overwhelming neces-
sity which exists for such a move
ment We havc seen the shadow
of plutocracy spreading steadily over our
land. We have seen the railroad corpora
tions grow from humble beginnings, the
u
powerful conspiracy which, for the protec-
tion of Its bogus capitalization, controls
elections, corrupts our legislatures, de-
bauches our juries and casts the slime of its
rottenness over the very judges OF our
courts, the last resort of justice on earth
We have seen the banking associations.
from being at first mere Conveniences for
the people, swell into national lordly con-
holding all business In its grip,
able to make or wreck, as their own inter
ests may dictate, the prosperity of all
classes, while not a dollar of currency is
able to ind its way to the people, from the
government that does not represent a dollar
of debt to the money manipulating class
We have seen the daily newspaper press. in
stead of being rs 1t should be In this nine
teenth century, and in this free America,
the champion and defender of popular
rights against all corners, coerced by its
business necessities into becoming the ready
instrument to bind the shackles of serfdom
on the limbs of free people; to confuse
their minds by sophistries; to fill their ears
with falsehood; to uphold everything that Is
destructive to public good and to cru:b
everything that would help the people.
AS striking illustration of the colossal
lies with which the people are fed and mis-
led, we would point to the vote of the peo-
ple's party this year in the state of Kansas
Nine tentns of the population of this coun-
sentations OF the press, believe that the
peoples party vote of Kansas in 1891 fell of
very greatly from their vote in 1891, while the
icial publication of the vote o; this year
shows that although the total vote OF al
parties in Kansas WAS about 80, less than
it was year ago, the peoples party Tote
was actually increased about lila per cent
over its vote in 1889, or A per cent of the
entire vote. The republican majority in
South Dakota was reduced from TO- % in
1890 to 400 in 1891, VIII lie in Nebraska the
peoples party came within 300 votes of de-
feating the combined power of both the old
parties an elected eleven district judges
1t Is true that In some judicial districts OF
Kansas the peoples party candidates were
def, ated, but it was only by an unholy union
Of the democratic and republican parties |
against them The hereditary enemies of a
half century gave up their sham battle and
under the inspiration of the money power /
rushed into each otber's arms and in one /
fond embrace resolved to forget protection, |
reciprocity. the silver question and every
thing else if they could only prevent the OPP |
pressed people of Kansas from obtaining
the governmental reforms which they /
sought In this act they conclusively dem |
On strated they are the two Dromios OF plu- |
tocracy and that only the difference of
leather di -tinguishes them from one an /
other. The people perceive that there is
room in this country for only two political |
parties-a party which represents the people /
and party which represents the plunderers
Of the people
Before the close of the election of 1899 we /
expect to see the two old parties. with all /
he banners and war cries, marching and /
nurrahing together in defense of the iniqui- /
lies which have covered the land with mort \
sages and driven the republic to the verge |
,f destruction. Already the asperities of the |
past have ceased between them and Their |
campaigns have become the sweet inter- |
change of courtesies between lovers rather /
than the fierce onslaught of warriors con- |
lending for opposing principles. The ten
der amenities of this courtship will be fol- |
lowed by the hot embrace of conjugal love, |
but the union will be barren of posterity'
And so, under the auspicious cireum- Il
stances, cheered by an abiding faith in our /
triumph in 1894 at the ballot b1x, fighting |
Tor the homes of a free people, for liberty, |
union, industry and justice, We confidently |
appeal to every honest man In the I'm ted /
States to come forward and help us TO bury |
this monster, plutocracy. so deep that he |
will never arise agl ain to trouble the ch Ildren
Of liberty. Do not wait to be summoned to
act on This fight is every mans light IL
the cradle; 1t Is fight to determine wheth.r
our prosperity shall be reduced to old world |
conditions or shall advance along the line |
of the declaration of Independence and the |
to greater prosperity and higher |
Whenever this appeal reaches any man
let him call his friends and neighbors to-
gether at once and organ ze II peoples party |
of Milwaukee. Let the watchword |
be: Organization to save the republic"
We have the numbers-the people-on our
side. All we need is courag and resolution.
III Il. TAUBENEGK. Chairman
ROBERT SCHILLING, Secretary.
nj. K RANKIN. Treasurer