The advocate., 1891-08-26

Texas Peoples party convention, held
at Dallas, Texas, on the 18th of
August, contains some points that
will be read with interest by the peo-
pie of Kansas. 1t opens as follows:
Gentlemen and Brother Co-WOrNers in the
Cause of the People and Reform in TerGs:
There Is a cause for your presence here to-day.
Were the conditions of our people as they should
be, you would not be here on this occasion.
You have gathered here from all parts OF this,
the greatest state IN the union, for purpose,
and that purpose Is to devise some means for
the relief Of the suffering people Of this great
s ate, who have no money to do business with.
Your cause is the most noble among men. You
are hare to demand JUSTICE and not charity, but
equa' rights for all. Your patience has grown
weary and worn out waiting for the empty
promises of the old parties to materialize into
true, genuine, wholesome legislation In the In
tePeSt Of the people. You now realize that time
wasted on them is lost forever, and every day
thus delayed only gives them time to bind the
fetterS on you the tighter, and make 1t harder
for you to redress the grisvous wrongs COM
mitted by them. You have been taught to be-
lleve that the party to which you belonged was
the best thing on earth. That they were good
10 their useful days do not deny. But those
days have long since departed, dear friends, and
are gone forever. Those structures have grown
old and rotten with age, and. like all other
buildings, after having become dilapldated,
must be torn down, and upon their ruins
greater one erected, the foundation Of which
was laid at Cincinnati, Ohio, May 10th and Goth,
1891, known as the Peoples Party of the United
States of America" and of which you are q
state branch.
Upon the tariff question the speak
or said:
The tariff issue has been used as stumbling
block, over which our people have fallen into
the hands Of monopoly, and are to-day helpless
invalidS, because they have taken that dose
from the hands of politicians for the last twenty
five years without asking what the principal in
gradients were Of which It was composed, and
to-day know no more about It than they did
when It was first submitted to them as GOOD or
bad medicine, depending upon which Of the two
doctors offered 1t. We find, upon investigation,
that there is only cents between them. Mills,
the great Democratic doctor, offering 1t at a AZ
cent rate, while Mckinley, the Republican doe
tor gave it at AZ cent rate, aud while all this is
true, would recommend that we take steps to
abolish it at the earliest possible moment, which
can only be done by the government owning and
operating all large public enterprises which now
OppresS the people, and let the profits therefrom
90 to the general government. know this
viii be called paternaliSm, but have very
great objection to being a bastard, and am will
ling to be the heir of legitimate parent.
The speaker approves the alien
land law, recommends a change of
the constitution 80 that the perms-
nent school fund, which is now re-
quired to be invested In state and
government bonds, may be used for
the construction of railroads to be
owned and operated by the state for
and in the interest of the people and
recommends the publication of school
books by the state and furnished in
such a way that the children of the
poor may have books as well as those
of the rich.
Concerning the lecture system and
the Ohio campaign he says:
Iwould like for you to arrange for onr speak
erS to have an interchangeable plan Of work,
which should be under the supervision of the
state central committee and subject to their
order. We want speakers from ether states to
come here and work next year, and, in my judg-