The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-04
A PEssIMIsTIC PREAMBLE.
Tho Committee Opens = Pandora's Box
of Eyils and Enumer rates Them.

OMAHA, July 3.-The subcommittee on
resolutions has agreed upon preamble to
the platform. 1t states that:
Assembled upon the 10th anniversary of the
Declaration of Independence, the Peoples
party, invoking the blessing of Almighty God,
puts forth, in the name of the people and the
country, the following preamble ana declaration
of principles:
We meet in the midst Of nation brought to
the verge OF moral, political aud IN s.erial ruin.
Corruption dominates the ballot box, the lezis-
Iature, congress and even touches the ermine of
the bench. The people are demoralized. Most
OF the states have been compelled to isolate
their voters at polling places to prevent
universal intimidation or bribery.
The newspapers are subsidized or muzzled;
public opinion is silenced business is pros
trated; our homes are covered with mortgages:
labor is impoverished: land Is concentrating in
the hands of capitalists, urban workmen are
denied the right OF organization for self -protec-
ton; imported and pauperized labor beats
down their wages: hireling standing army.
unrecognized by law, Is established to shoot
them down, aud they are rapidly degenerating
into European condition The fruits OF the
toll OF millions are used 70 build up castles and
fortunes unprecedented in the history OF
mankind, and the possessors of these
in turn despise the republic and endanger
liberty From the same prolific womb of a gov.
erument OF injustice we breed two great classes
--trafnps and millionaires. The national power
to create money is appropriated TO enrich bond
holders, The vast public debt, payable
in legal tender, has been funded
into gold bearing bonds, thereby adding
millions TO the burdens OF the people. Silver,
which has been accepted a coin since the
dawn OF history. has been demonetizad to add
to the purchasing power of gold, by decreasing
the value OF all forms OF property well as
human labor, and the supply OF currency Is pue
posely abridged to- fatten the usurer, bankrupt
enterprise aud enslaye industry. A vas; con-
spiracy against mankind has been organized on
two continents, and il is rapidly taxing posses.
sion OF the world II not met and overthrown
at once it forebodes terrible social convulsion,
the destruction OF civilization, or the establish
rnent OF absolute despotism.
We witnessed for mora than quarter century
the struggle Of two great political parties fog
power and plunder, while grieyous wrongs have
been inflicted upon suffering people. We
charge that the controlling influences dominat-
ing both OF these parties have permitted the ex-
istng dreadful condition to develop
without serious efforts 10 prevent or
restrain them. Neither do they now
promise us auy substantial reform. They
agreed together TO igaole In the coming cam
tairR every iasue but one by which they pro.
pose 10 drown out the cries OF the pluaderet
neor,le with an uproar OF sham battle over the
tariff so that the capitaistie corporations.
tiouai bank rfngs, trusts, watered stocks, Qemone-
tzation OF silver ana oppression OF all usurers,
NAV be lost sight Of. They propose 70 sacrifice
onr homes I've and children on the altar OF
Mammon. to destroy the multitude in order 10
secure corruption funds for millionaires.
AZ bled on the ami erSary OF the birth OF
the nat.oa, and filed with the spirit OF ths
grand generation who established our in1epen.
dence. we seek 10 restore the government Of this
republic TO the hands oi the plain people with