St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-04
1t Appears That We Are Rap
idly Drifting Into a
Despotism.
Both the Old Parties Charged
With Conniving at Down
right Rob berry.
A TRADE in Which Mr.. Dom
nelly Evidently Took a x
Lively Hand.

adopted tonight by the committee on
platform, and which will be adopted by
the convention tomorrow:
Assembled upon the 10th annivers-
afy of the Declaration of independence
the. Peoples party of America, in theii
first national convention, invoking upon
their actions the blessings of Almighty
God, put forth in the name and on be-
half of the people of this country this
preamble and declaration OF principles:
The conditions which surround US
just ify our cooperation; we meet in the
midst of nation brought to the verge
of moral, political and material ruin.
Corruption dominates the ballot box,
the legislatures, the congress, and
touches even the ermine of the
bench. The people are de-
moraliZed. and most of the
states have been compelled to isolaet
the voters at the polling places in order
to prevent universal intimidation or
bribery. The ne wspapers are subsi-
died, public opinion silenced; business
prostrated: our homes covered with
mortgages; labor impoverished, and the
land concentrating in the hands of cap
ibollolSs uC ulUdu WOIhIlCu dTG
denied the right of organization
for self-protection; imported, pauper-
lied labor beats down their wages; a
hireling standing army, unrecognized
by our laws, is established to shoot
them down, and they are rapidly degen-
Grating into European conditions. The
fruits of the tolls of millions are boldly
stolen to build up
Colossal Fortunes
unprecedented in the history of man
kind, and the pOSSessorS of these inturn.
despise the republic and endanger
liberty. From the same prolific womb
1of governmental injustice we breed two.
great classes-tramps and millionaires. .
The national power to create money is-
appropriated 70 enrich ondhald-
able able in leg legal % tender 1sys Currency gas
has been funded into gold-bearing
bonds, thereby adding millions to the
burdens of the people. Silver. accepted
as coin since the dawn of history, has
been demOnetiZed to add to the purchas-
ing power of gold by decreasing
the value of all forms of property
as we'll as human labor, and the
supply OF currency is purposely
abridged to fatten usurpers. bankrupt
enterprise and enslave industry. A
Nooo conspiracy uHoluSt uds
been organized on two continents, and
it is rapidly taking possession of the
world. If not met and overthrown al
once it fOrebodes terrible social con-
vulsiOns. the destruction OF civilization
and the establishment of despotism. We
have witnessed for more than quarter
of a century the struggles of the great
parties for power and plunder, while
grievous wrongs have been inflicted up
on suffering people. We charge that
the controlling influences dominating
ted the existing dreadful condi.
tions to develop without seri.
Gus efforts to prevent or restrain
them. Neither do they promise Us anJ
substantial reform. They have agreed
to ignore in the coming campaign every
issue but one. The propose to drowI
the cries OF
A PIundered People.
with the uproar of sham battle over
the tariff. SO that capitalists, corpora.
tions. national banks, rings. trusts,
watered stocks, the decentralization of
silver and the oppression of the usurers
may all be lost sight of. They propose to
sacrifice our homes ahd children on the
altar of Mammon, to destroy the null
titude in order to secure corruption
funds from the millionaires. Assembled
on the anniversary of the birthday of
the nation, filled with the spirit of the
grand generation which established
our independence, we seek to restore
the government of the republic to the
hands of 1.-THE plain people,'
with which class it originated.
We assert our purposes to be Identical
with the purposes Of the national con-
stltution; TO form more perfect union,
rfof Itch,
quillity. provide Tor the common de-
fense, promote the welfare and secure
the blessings of liberty for ourselves
and our posterity. We declare
that this republic can only endure
as a free government while built upon
the love of the whole people for each
other; that 1t cannot be joined together
by bayonets; that the civil war is over
and that every passion and resentment
which grew out of it must die with it,
and that we must he in fact, as we are
in name, one united brotherhood of free
men. Our country finds us confronted
by conditions for which there is no prec-
edent in the history of the world. Our
annual agricultural production amounts
Billions of Dollars
in value, which must within weeks OF
months be exchanged for billions OF
dollars OF commodities consumed in
their production. The existing cur.
rency supply is wholly inadequate tc
make this exchange. The results are
falling prices, the formation of com.
bines and rings and the impoyerishment
Of the producing class. We pledge
ourselves that if given power we will
will labor to correct these evils by rea-
'onable legislation in accordance with
The terms of our platform. We believe
hat the powers of governmept-ln
other words of the people-shall be ex-
panded (as III the case of postal
'ervice) as rapidly. and as far as the
good sense of an intelligent people
and the teachings of experience shall
Justify, to the end that oppression. in-
Justice and poverty shall eventually
cease in the land. While our sympathies
apart from reform are naturally upon
he side of every proposition which
will tend to make men Intelligent, vir-
Luous and temperate, we nevertheless
regard these questions. important as
hey are subordinate to the great is
sues now pressing for solution, and
upon which not only individual pros
oerity, but the very existence of Ie
depends and we ask