The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-13
THE VITAL ISSUES.
The New Political Gospel Win
ming Its Way.
PREACHED IN ALL SECTIONS.


Copyright. 1891. by Reform Press News ALSO
citation. New York;
The national executive committee o.
the Peoples party appointed at Cincin
natl in May is doing a mighty work
It is amazing what tremendous infu
ence it is exerting in several western
states especially. 1t has become the
great and most dreaded element in the
campaign for the leaders Of both the old
parties. Chairman Taubeneck is host
in himself, and the manner in which he
has made his vigorous efforts felt in
Ohio, kentucky and other states is some.
thing wonderful. have received from
him call which he has just issued for q
meeting of the Peoples party leaders to
be held at the Bates House. indianapolis,
On the 10th Of November. This is the
day preceding the meeting Of the su-
ipreme council of the Farmers Alliance,
and it is peculiarly appropriate that a
great council Of the new party leaders
should be held at about the same time
and place.
Chairman Taubeneck says also in his
CALI
II have also been requested to invite
che three members from each state con-
shutting the national central committee
of Peoples party, and all other friends
of our cause to meet with us on above
data al avayu ono ba ,,roeapt
1t will be great gathering no doubt,
and what is said and done there will
foreshadow the action of the council to
be held the following February when
a candidate for president will be nomi-
mated and the new party will take rec
ognized rank as one of the giant politi-
cal forces of the age.
There is whole sermon, a lesson in
political economy and an issue big
enough to fight out a national cam
paign upon in this short paragraph to
which the reform papers are giving a
wide publicity.
'sIn 1868 the amount of our national
debt was S2.610,000,000. Wheat was
worth $3.50 per bushel, cotton 10 cents
pound, pork $57 barrel We could
have paid the national debt then with
1,400, 600. 900 bushels Of wheat 100, 000,-
600 barrels of pork or 100000 bales OF
cotton. Since 1868 we have paid in dol
lars 81. 4S0. 600. 900 of the public debt,
and there is now left in dollars to pay
81, 1870. 100000. But wheat. cotton and
pork have gone down in price 1t would
take as many bushels of wheat, as many
soales Of cotton, as many barrels of pork,
as many days labor to pay the balance
now due of 81, 100, 900. 900 as would have
suficed in 1868 to pay the debt of $500
100000"
In a short month more the hack poll
ticians of the country will have discov-
cred that good crop will not stop
political revolution that has funda-
mental wrongs for its basis. When the
ruins of their specious prophecies come
laundering down about their ears they
will begin to wonder sadly what it all
means. Even then most Of them will be
too stupid to understand that u new era
in American politics has dawned. The
truth is being spread before them daily,
but they don't see it; they won't see it.
The Farmers Alliance Of Lincoln. Neb.,
puts it about right when it says:
lis the Alliance the outgrowth Of last
years short crops? Not at all. On the
contrary the Alliance has been making a
slow, steady and sure growth for the
past fifteen years. 1t was organized in
this state in the winter of 1872. and
has had strong foothold in the state
ever since, having held an annual meet
ing every winter since that date. The
causes for the organization Of the farm
ers and toilers OF the nation lie far deep
er than the scarcity from the crop fail
ure of one or two years. What has the
failure Of crops to do with the gradua
accumulation of wealth of the nation il
a few hands until $4,000 men own more
than the other 100000? What has
crop failures to do with fraudulent rail
road construction and stock watering
until the whole railroad system has be
come a rotten, fostering sore? What
have crop failures to do with financia
system that makes the most potent func
ton of the government--the power to is
sue money-an instrument of oppression
in the hands of select and aristocratit
class?
THE good crop cry is shallow in tn
last degree. The simple fact is, that tn
present discomfort is the legitimate out
growth of the educational effort of tn
last generation. The people are begin
ming TO understand economic laws. Edu
cation has developed the belief that tn
producer Of wealth is entitled to tn
wealth he produces, and has develops
intelligence enough to show why he doe
not get it"
am surprised daily by the intelli
gence which comes to me OF the supper
which the reform movement Is receivin
in quarters where it would be least
pected. have been spending consideft
able time of late in Boston, and IL ~
very heart of blue blooded, aristocrs
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