Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-12-09
Peoples Party Address.

The national committee issued the
following address. We commend it to
the careful consideration of our party.
The old parties are now organizing for
| go. Let the new party be up and do
ing:
The national committee of the peo-
ple's party of the United States deem
it proper to lay before their constitu-
ents at this time some statement of the
results of the national conference held
| by them with various representatives
of organized industry held dur
| ing the past few days. These results
| have been in every respect most salts
| factory. There is no longer any doubt
that candidates for president and vice.
president will be in the field before
June l, 1892, nominated by the peoples
party. 1t seems to US very plain that
The time has come when no influence
of the old political organizations and
no power OF aggregated capital can pre-
vent the hearty and unanimous coming
| together and cooperation of all the Ia
| Dor forces or the United States, wheth-
er employed in the work shop. or in the
mine or on the farm.
This is an important event in the
| history of the nation and of civilized
| man-there has been no precedent for
| it in any of the past ages. The produc-
| ing classes have hitherto remained i'm
pOVerished in the midst OF the very
| plenty which they created. Those who
| toiled not have possessed the wealth of
| the world, while those who tOiled have
| too often suffered for the necessaries of
| life. But the advance OF civilization
and universal education have flooded
| the minds of the multitude with an
ocean of light and taught them the SUI
preme necessity for co operation in de-
| tense of the unborn right of humanity.
| The producing classes of the United
| States are the natIon-all others SIM
| ply live by the tolls imposed on the in
| dustry of the workers. To make no war
upon the on-producerS, as such, some
| of them render the people full equiva-
| lent OF services for ali they receive; 9TH
ers are robbers and plunderers who,
| through the imperfection of our laws,
| strip toll of its possessions and and do
not go to the penitentiary.
The people have beheld with grow
| ing alarm the advance of conditions
which every day have carried US farther
| and farther away from the principles
| and traditions of the founders OF the
| republic. anu nearer anu HcdIOI W al
| abyss in which we can see only crush
ing oligarchy or the dreadful alterna-
tive of revolution and anarchy. 1t is
| for the purpose of saving free institu-
ton by the peaceful instrumentalities
Of education and the ballot, that the
peoples party of the United States has
been organized. No man fails to &C
knowledge the overwhelming necessity
which exists for such movement. We
have seen the railroad corporations
grow from humble beginners, the mere
servItors of the people, into a vast and
powerful conspiracy, which for the pro-
lection of its bogus capitalization. con-
trolls elections, controls our legislatures,
debauches our juries and casts the
slime OF its rOtteneSs over the very
judges of our district courts, the last
resort of justice on earth. We have
seen banking associations, from being
At first mere conveniences for the &C
cOmmOdatiOns of the people. swell into
lOrdly national confederation, hold
ing all business in its grip. able TO make
or wreck. as their own interest may
dictate. the prosperity of all classes.
while not dollar of the currency ia
able to find its way to the people. from
the government that does not represent
dollar of debt to the manipulating
class. We have seen the daily news.