New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-07-13
injustice we breed the two great classes-tramps
aud rniiIiouaires

f1aIed Co elicleH sDOl0QOlQefSs vast PUBIC
debt payable inl legal tender currency has been
funded into gold bearing bonds, thereby adding
millions to the burdens of the people. Silver.
which has been accepted as coin since the dawI,
OF history, has been demonetized to add to the
purchasing power OF gold by decreasing the
value of all forms OF property as well as human
labor, and the supply OF currency is purposely
Abridged TO ratteil usurers, bankrupt enterprise
and enslave industry. A vast conspiracy
against mankind has been organized on Two
continents and it Is rapidly taking POSSESSION
of the world II not met and overthrown at
once it forbodes terrible social onvuleiOns the
destruction OF civilization or the establishment
| of an absolute deSpotiSm. We have witnessed
for more than quarter of century the sbrug-
giles OF the great political parties for power
and plunder. while grlevous wrongs have been
inflicted upon The suffering people. We charge
that the controlling influences dominating both
these parties have per ed the existing dread
full conditions to develop without serious effort
to prevent or restrain Them. Neither do they
now promise us any substantial reform They
have agreed together to ignore. III the coming
can paign, every ISSUE but one. They propose
to drown the Outcries of 3 plundered people
with the uproar of Il sham battle over the tar
id. so that CAPITALISTS, corporations. national
banks. rings, trusts watered ST ock. the demon
citation OF silver and this expressions OF the
usurers may all be lost sight OF. They propose
TO sacrifice orr homes lives and children ON the
altar OF Mammon to destroy the multitude i'll
order to secure corruption FUNDS from the mill.
| iOnsiireS.
FOURTH OF JULY GRAFTON.
Assembled on the anniversary OF the birthday
grand generation who established our inde-
pendelce, we seek to restore the government of
the republic TO the hands Of 1.-The plan. people
with whose class 1t orsginated.5 We assert our
purpose to be Identical with the purposes OF the
national constitution. to form a more perfect
Union. establish Justice, insure domestic tram
guilty, provided for the common defense. pro-
mote the general Welfarean 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 and for the nation:
that it cannot be pinned together by bayonets:
that the civil war is over, and that every passion
and resentment which grew out OF 1t must die
with it, and that we must be in fact. rs we are
| in name. one united brotherhood OF free men,
| Our country finds itself confronted by con-
ditions for which there is no precedent in the
history of the world-our annual agricultural
productions amount to billions OF dollars. which
must within 2 few weeks or mouths be ex-
changed for billions of dollars Of commodities
consumed in their production. The existing
currency supply is wholly inadequate to make
this exchange The results are falling prices, he
formation OF combines and rings. the Empower
islment OF the producing class. We pledge our
se4yes that it given powerwe will labor to correct
these evils by wise and reasonable legislation i'll
accordance with the terms OF our platform.
We believe that the power OF goyernment--in
other words. OF the people-should be expanded
las i'll the Case OF tine postal service) 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 injustice and
poverty shall eventually cease IN the land.
While our sympathies as q party OF reform
are naturally upon the side OF every proposition
which Will tend to make men intelligent ,y1rtuous
and temperate, we nevertheless regard these
questions-important as they areas second
aryto the great issues now presYi g for solution,
and upon which not only our individual pros
perity but the very existence OF free
depend; and we ask All men to first help us to
determine whether we are to have republic TO
administer. before We differ rs to the conditions
upon which it is to be administered; believing
hat he orr fr>pyo hia n fyaH lyi
never cease to move forward until every wrong
is remeded, and equal rights and equal priyil-
securely established 9r I'll the and
first-ThaC the union of the labor forces of
the United States this day consummated shall
be permanent and perpetual: mayits spirit enter
into all hearts for the salvation OF the republic
and the uplifting OF mankind.
Second-Wealtn belongs to him who creates
it. and every dollar taken from industry with
out an equivaent in return is robbery. III any
will not work neither shall he eat The inter-
ests of rural and civic labor are the same; their
enemies are IDENTICAL
Third We believe that the time has come
when the railroad corporations will either own
the people or the peop.e must own t he railroads.
and should the government I, enter upon tie WorS
OF owning and managing all roads we should
favor an amendment TO thes constitution by
which all persons engaged in the governments
service shall be placed under civil service reg
ulatioil of the m st rigid character SO as o pre-
vent the increase OF the power OF the national
administration by the use OF such additional
government employees.
FINANCE.
We demand az national currency, safe sound
and flexible. issued by the general government
only, a full legal tender for all debts public and
private, and that without the use OF banking
corporations, a. just. equitable and efficient
means of distribution direct to the people at a
provided as SET forth in forth inthe subtreasury
plan OF the Farmers Alliance. or a better sys-
tenn; also by payments i'll discharge ofits obli-
cations for public imp1 oyements.
unlimited mi 90 IF ell.
to1
8 We demand that the amount Of circulating
medium be speedily increased to not less than
$50 per capira
We demand a graduated income tax.
& We believe that the money OF the country
should be kept as much as possiblein the hands
OF the people, and hence We demand that all
state and national revenues shall be limited to
the necessary expenses Of the government eco
nomicaly administered.
We demand that postal savings banks be es-
tabllshed by the government for the safe deposit
Of the earnings OF The people and to facilitate
exchange.
TRANSPORTATION AND LAND
transportation being a means OF exchange
and a pubic necessity the government should
own and operate the railroads i'll the interest of
the people.
The telegraph and telephone, like the postoffice
system, being a necessity for the transmission
ofneWs should be owned and operated by the
government in the interest of the people.
The land. including all the natural sources of
Wedttll IS ulle heritage OF lnS people, ana should
not be monopozed for speculative purposes,
and alien ownership OF land should be prohibit
ed. All land now held by railroads and other
corporations in excess OF their actual needs
and all lands not owned by aliens should be re-
claimed by the government and held for actual
settlers only.
The platform was unanimously adopted.
The convention then adjoined till p. M.
EVENING sEssIo ON.
The first business of the evening session
was thereport from the resolutions COM
mittee ola Supplemental the platform as
follows:
Yourscommittee on platform and resolutions
beg leave unanimously to report the following:
Whereas. other questions have been presented
Tor our consideration, We here5y submit the fol
lowing not as as a part OF the platform OF the
Peoples party. but as resolutions expressive OF
the sentiment of this conventions:
Is Resolved. That we demand a free ballot ard a
lair count in all elections and pledge ourselves
to secure it to every legal voter without federal
intervention through the adoption by the states
of the unperyerted Australian or secret ballot
system.
That the revenue derived from a graduated
income tax should be applied to the reduction
OF the burden of taxation now levied upon the
domestic Industries OF this country.
That we pledge our support to fair and liberal
PENSIONS to ex- Union soldiers and sailors
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