Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-12-07

james b. Weaver to-day issued the fol-
lowing address:
Dies MONIES, To-, Nov. 16 1892
To Hon. T. E. Taubeneck. Chairman National
Committee Peoples Party:
My DEAR SIR wish by this method
to briefly address through you the
friends of reform thIOughoutth the Union.
Unaided by money our grand Young
party has made an enviable record and
achieved surprising success at the polls.
we are but little behind the Republic
can party in the number of States carri-
ed. AS a result of the late election we
er in the Senate Of the United States
have doubled the number of our adher-
entS Ill the House of Representatives,
secured control of anumber of State gov
ernments, hold the balance of power in
majority of tie States of the Union,
and have succeeded in arousing spirit
of political independence in the North
west which cannot be disregarded in the
future. Not being formed on sectional
lines, our party in a single campaign
has gained large and influential fol-
lowing in every State in the! South.
This gives promise of good government
in that section of the Union, thing
the Republican party has failed to do
after thirty years of almost uninterrupt-
ed rule, and gives promise, too, of cor
recting evils which NAV exist through
the people of the respective States, ms
tead of attempting to do so by innu-
ences from without.
We have awakened fraternal feelings
IN ali sections, and as an earnest of our
good will toward the South, the
grand people of Kansas, a state con-
tanning more union soldiers than any
ether, elected One-arIned eX- cOnfeder-
ate soldier of the Peoples party to rep
resent the State at-large III congress.
The country is to be congratulated
upon the fact that the leaders of one of
the heretofore great parties have been
abandoned and overthrown by the peo-
pie and their organization well nigh an
INFLATED.
This leaves the former adherents of
that party free to align themselves with
the great anti-monopoly and industrial
movement. The accession of the other
party to power is the result of violent
reaction and not, l am sure, of the de.
liberate judgment Of the American peo-
pie. The battle leaders of the triumph
ant party are without any well-defned
policy, except that Of contemptuous dis
regard for every element of reform
within the ranks of their own party and
among the people at large.
The new administration will ignore
the three great contentious of modern
times relating to land, money and trans
pOrtation, and will not attempt to solve
either. In fact the whole force of the
new regime will be exercised to prevent
reform in these important matters.
The urgent demand of the people for
the free coinage of silver is to be dis.
painfully ignored and new obstacles
will doubtless be interpoSed to further
l..
contempt of the doctrine of Andrew
Jackson, European arlstocrats are to be
permitted to dictate our financial policy.
One the most valuable results of the
late civil war-that of q uniform legal
tender currency issued by the govern
ment-is to be sacrificed and abondon-
ed, and serious attempts will be made
to force the people to return to the
fraudulent system Of state bank issues
which existed prior to the war, and
which periodically swIndled the indus
trial classes of the fruits of their toll.
This is to be sprung upon the people
by sudden stroke of policy by leaders
who carefully kept their motive con-
cealed from the public. This crime is
to be enacted into law between cleo
tions and before the people can have
time to pass upon the question by the
selection of representatives chosen for
the purpose. That this is the deliber-
ate plan is shown by the clause in the
democratic platform which calls for the
repeal Of the law imposing a tax upon
the circulation of state banks. 1t is
confirmed by the fact that Mr.. Coe,
chairman of the executive committee
of the American bankers association,
together with large number of New
York bankers, publicly gave their sup
port to the democratic party only few
da,s before the election.
The situation gives an additionalim-
portance to the great question which a
few have cOmprehe nded for score of
years, namely: Shall the currency of
the country be legal tender issue and
its value controlled by the government,
or shall it be nonlegal tender issued and
controlled by the banks-the issues
pressing for solution are simply tre-
mendious and the situation portentious.
Our party has not made its advent too
soon. Its mission Is to restore t. our
government its original and only legi-
innate function-which has been well
nigh lost by sage-that of seeing
to all Its citizens, the weak as well as
the mighty, III the unmolested enjoy
menu or tnelr Inallenab!e rights. This
cannot be accomplished unless the re-
lations between labor and its creature,
capital are so adjusted as to cause each
to respect the domain of the other
These important forces are now upon
a war footing, whereas, under humane
laws, they would naturally dwell to-
gether in perfect peace. The repres-
sive policy, now fully inaugerated in
this country, win not work well in the
the closing years of the 10Th century.
1t is the fatal blunder of weak leaders
who fail TO comprehend the spirit of
age and the growth of independence
among the people. 1t denies to labor
the right to organize, relies upon the
military arm to sustain corporate pre-