Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-08-01
THE WICKED OTHER FELLOW
The Peoples Party Issues an Ad-
dress to Voters.
The Address Is Like n New Declaration of
Independence, I'm Winch the Other Par
ties Are Abused--A Peculiar Piece
of Campaign Literature.

Independence, in winch the other Par-
ties Are Abused--A Peculiar Piece
of Campaign Literature.
MrLwAUKEE, July 23--An address
from the national executive committee
of the new peoples party of the United
States was issued today from the ma
tional headquarters of the organization
in this city. IL commences as follows:
''The times that try mems souls are
here once more. The descendants of
the British tories OF 1870, and other
European and American capitalists
have bound our country with chains
more CALLING and more dangerous than
the political bonds that oppressed the
colonies, because they are more subtle
and more corrupting in their influences.
The declaration of independence from
the arrogance of British politicians,
must be supplanted by declaration of
independence from tho frightful power
of concentrated wealth. The political
independence, which the fathers of the
country secured through seven years of
bloody war, is but n shallow sham un-
less our country can secure industrial
independence. The subtle power of
money TO oppress is greater than the
ephemeral power of the willy politician,
The tyrants of modern civilization do
not bind their subjects with bonds of
blood and iron, as did the conquerors
of the past-their weapon is corruption,
forged by duplicitv and riveted by ig-
norance. The warriors of old. who sailed
forth TO prey upon their fellow men, To
subjugate and exact tribute from them,
did il like men and heroes, knowing
that in case OF failure their lives would
pay the forfeit. To be robber knight
of modern civilization requires neither
courage nor heroism. Under our pres
ent system the most CONSCIOUSNESS
schemer, the most unscrupulous cor
ruptionist, wields the greatest power
and levies the most enormous tribute.
The British nobility tyrannized over
the American colonies and exacted tax
alton without representation, but the
American people recognized the dan
ger, because their defiance of the llb-
tic of the colonies was so open and
undisguised that all could see il. The
fact that our country today is an alb
jectly tributary province of British and
other oligarchs is known and recog-
nized by only few, because the sys-
TEN that has brought " about has been
covered up by subsidized or ignorant
newspapers and politicians until but
two remedies are left--the ballot or
the bullet We consider. violence in
settling disputes rs unworthy of a civ
ilized nation, and for this reason we
have organized party of the people
to overthrow once more the tyrants
who have and are continuing to rob us
of that TO which they have no moral
right"
The address goes on to refer TO the
immense amount at which the rail
roads of the country are capitalized, TO
discuss the money question, denounces
what it calls the idiotic policy inaugu-
rated by the Cleveland administration
and continued by the present one of
paying high premiums to redeem bonds
not due, and by which system $780,
OOO, 900 was given TO bond holders nm
necessarily, dilates upon the monstrous
burden of debt resting upon the people
and especially the agricultural classes,
says it will not be long until the farm
GIs VI bhS SOuhiiy uiS NiiC lththAS vi
the absentee landlords and most of the
people degraded to the level of serfs To
serve concentrated wealth, says that
the remedy is the unlimited use of gov
ernment notes and the loan of money
by the government To the people and
finally concludes as follows:
But while the peoples party con-
siders an improvement OF our monetary
system the most pressing reform, il
will not contine itself To that alone
any more than il will try 10 lift up one
class of citizens at the expense of an
other. 1t demands equal and exact
justice to all, even to the predatory
classes. Unscrupulous capitalists have
oppressed the wage workers, and they
deserve not only the sympathy but the
active cooperation of all humanitar-
ians in their struggles against the en-
croachments of the gigantic combina-
tions that treat them as chattels and
grind unnecessary wealth out of their
excessive toll. Our telegraph lines,
now controlled by designing stock
gamblers who manipulate the news for
purposes of speculation, should be
owned and controlled by the people
and in the interest of the people, as is
the postal system. The peoples party
does not inte nd TO stop at the reforms
proposed in its platform. A progress
sive organization cannot stand still.
The "logic of events" will cause it to
advance with the times. And as pub
lie opinion is educated in the far-reac,i-
ing reform measures now agitating the
country, the peoples party, as the
Seans to bring them to practical frui-
tion, will march on to that victory,
which is imperatively necessary to Sc
cure once more that freedom of action
and Independence from dictation and
tribute which is the heritage OF every
human being. In the name of Liberty,
for which the fathers of the republic
pledged their lives, their fortunes and
their sacred honors, we appeal TO every
earnest, honest and thinking human
being To aid and assist us in this strug-
gle for human rights and equality 10y
joining the party of the people"
The Madison Chautauqua.