The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-07-05

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ermine of the bench. The people are de-
moralized Most OF the states have been
compelled to isolate the voters at the
polling places to prevent universal lntimi-
dation or bribery, the newspapers are sub
sidized or muzzled; public opinion is ST.
fenced, business is Frustrated our homes
are covered with mortgages labor i'm
pcverished, land concentrating in the
hands of capitalists, urban workmen
denied the right of organization for
self protection imported pauperized
labor beats down their wages,
hiring standing army unrecognized
| by law, is established to shoot them down,
and they are rapidly degenerating into
European conditl0n- The fruits of the toll
colossal fortunes unprecedented in the his
tory of mankind, and the possessors of
these in turn despise the Republic and en-
danger liberty; from the same prolific
womb of government injustice we breed
two great classes, tramps and milionalres.
/ The national power to create money is ap-
propriated to enrich bondholders. The
vast public debt payable in legal tender
has been funded into gold bearing bonds.
| thereby adding millions to the burdens of
the people. The silver which has been ac-
cepted as coin since the dawn of history,
! has been demonetized TO add to the pur-
chasing power of gold by decreasing the
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human labor and the supply of currency is
purposely abridged to fatten the usurer,
bankrupt enterprise, and enslaye industry.
The vast conspiracy against mankind has
been organized on two continents and it is
rapidly taking possession of the world. If
not met and overthrown at once, it for
BODIES terrible social commissions; the de-
struction of civilization or the establish
ment Of an absolute des potism.
We have witnessed for more than a
quarter of 8 century the struggles of the
two great political parties for power and
pluuder, while the grevious wrongs have
been inflicted upon the suffering people.
We charge that the controlling influences
dominating both these parties have per-
mitted the existing dreadful conditions to
develop without serious efforts to prevent
or restrain them. Neither do they now
promise US any substantial reform. They
agreed together to ignore In the coming
campaign every issue but one. They pro-
pose to drown the outcries of the plum
dered people with the uproar of sham
battle over the tariff, so that capitalists,
corporations. national banks, rings, trusts.
watered stock. characterization of silver
expressions of all usurers may be lost sight
oil. They propose to
SACRIFICE OUR HOMES,
lives and children on the altar of Mammon;
to destroy a multitude In order to secure
corruption funds from millionaires.
Assembled on the anniversary of the
birth of the nation, and filed with the
spirit of the grand generation who estab-
lished our independence, we seek to re-
store the good of the republic to the hands
Of 1.-THE plain people, which class origin
ated it. We assert our purpose TO be
Identical with the purpose of the national
constitution TO form q more perfect union,
establish justice, insure domestic tran
guilty, provide for the common de-
Tense, promote the general welfare and
and our posterity.u We declare the re-
public can only endure as a free govern
ment upon the love of the whole people for
each other and for the Nation; that it can
not be pinned together by a bayonet. The
civil war is over and every passion and
resentment which grew out Of it must die
with il, and we must be in fact as we are
ia same, one united brotherhood of free
men. Our country finds itself confronted
/ by conditions for which there is no pre-
cedent in the history of the world. Our
annual agricultural productions dmout to
millions OF dollars in the value of which
must within few weeks or months be ex-
changed for millions of commodities con-
sumed IN their production. The existing
currency supply is wholly inadequate TO
make this exchange. The results are,
! falling prices, formation of combines, and
rings and in the impoverishment of the pro-
ducing class. We pledge ourselves that if
given power we will labor to correct these
evils by wise and reasonable legislation.
We believe that the powers of govern
ment should be expanded las in the case
of the postal service) rapidly and so far as
the good sense of the intelligent people and
the teachings Of experience shall justify, to
the end that oppression, injustice and
poverty shall eventually cease in. the land.
While our sympathies as a party of
reform are naturally upon the side
of every proposition which will tend to
make meu intelligent, virtuous and tenn
perate, we nevertheless regard these Ques-
tions, important as they are, as subordin-
ate to the great issues now pressing for
solution, and upon which not only individ-
ual prosperity. but the very existence of
free institutions depend, and we ask all
men to first help US determine whether we
are to have
REPUBLIC TO ADMINISTER
before we differ as to the conditions upon
which it is to be administered.
Believing that the forces OF reform this
day set in motion will never cease to move
forward until every wrong shall be RENE
died and equal privileges securely estab-
lished for ali men and women, we declare,
therefore,
Flrse-That the union of labor forces of
tu5 uilcu ObdlcS ILLS QdJ
shall be permanent and perpetual; may its
spirit enter into all hearers for the saliva
ton of the republic and the uplifting Of
mankind.
Second Wealth belongs TO him who Gre
ated it and every dollar taken from Indus
try without al equivalent is robbery. "If
any man will not work neither SHALL he
eat.n The interest of rural and civil labor
are the same; they are identical.
Third-We believe the time has come
when railroad corporations viii either own
i the people, or the people must own the
railroads. And should the government ca
ter upon the work of holding and managing
any or all railroads, we should favor an
amendment to the constitution by which
all persons engaged in government service
shall be placed under civil service regu-
lation Of the most rigid character. so as to
prevent al increase of the power of the ma
tional administration by the use of such
additional government employees.
The platform proper is as follows
We demand a national currency, SAFE
sound and flexible, issued by the general
government only, full legal tender for all
debts, public and private, and that without
the use of banking corporations; q just,
equitable and efficient means of dis
tribution to the people. That
not TO exceed two per cent. per
annum, to be provided as set forth in the
suo-bIeasury plhh VI the druer's dhldnce
or better system; also by payments in
the discharge of It's obligations for public
improvements.
(A) We demand the free and unlimited
coinage or silver and gold at the present
legal ratio Of sixteen to one.
OBJ We demand that the circulating
medium be speedily increased to not less
than $50 per capita.
(C) We>demand graduated income lax.
I'D We believe the money of the coun-
try should be kept as much as possible in
the hands of the people, and hence demand
all state and national revenues shall be