People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-09
TEE PEOPLES PARTY.
STATE PLATFORM, ADOPTED AT ATTAIN
IA, July GOTH, 1892.

IA, JULY GOTH, 1892.
We endorse and reaffirm the preamble,
resolutions and platform adopted by the
Peoples Party in national convention as
sembled at Omaha, July 4, 1892 We
| indorse the ticket nominated and
pledge the party when it shall come
into power in the State to frame and
administer the laws in the spirit of
| the Omaha platform, which is equal
justice to all, and special privileges to
mona.
2. We condemn the convict lease sys-
tenn.
3. We demand rigid economy in all
public matters and mist on every pos
sibie reduction of taxation during the
present impoverished condition of the
people.
Ana we call public attention to the
fact that the producing interest in both
city and country is bearing more than It's
fair share of taxation.
NATIONAL PLATFORM, ADOPTED AT
OMAHA, JULY 4TH, 1899.
Assembled upon the one hundred and SIX
teenth anniversary OF the declaration of indie
pendence, the Peoples Party Of America, in
their first national convention, invoking upon
their action the blessing of the Almighty God
put forth in the name of the people Of this
country. the following preamble and declara-
ton of principles;
The conditions which surround us best
IusETy our cooperation; we meet In the
midst of q nation brought to tins verge of
moral, political and material ruin. COrrup-
ton dominates the ballot box legislatures,
congress-, and touches even the ernnine of
she bench.
The people are demoraIized; most OF the
states have been compelled to isolat voters
at polling places to prevent universal in
tiniidatiOn or bribery. Newspapers are
largely subsidized or muzzled; public
opinion silenced business Frustrated; our
homes covered with mortgages; labor i'm
poverished; and the land concentrating in
the hands of capitalists. The urban work
men are denied the right Of organization for
selt-protection imported pauperlzed labor
beats down their wages q hlrellng standing
army, unrecognized by our laws, is esta o.
ished to shoot them down, and they are
rapidly degenerating into European condi-
tons. The fruits of the toll Of millions are
boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes
for a few, 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
governmental injustice, we breed two great
classes-tramps and millionaires. National
power to create money Is appropriated to
enrich bondholders; vast public debt pay
able in legal tender currency has been
funded into gold bearing bonds, thereby
adding millions to the burdens of the peO-
pie. Silver, which has been accepted as
coin since the dawn of history, has been
demonetized to add to the purchasing pow
or Of gold by decreasing the value Of all
forms Of property as well as human labor,
and the supply Of currency is purposely
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prise and enslave industry. a vast con-
spiracy against mankind has been organized
on the two continents and it is rapidly
taking possession OF the world. II not met
and overthrown at once itfore bodies terrible
social convulsionS, the destruction of civil
ization or the establishment OF an absolute
despotisIn.
We have witnessed for more than aquar-
ter of century the struggles OF two great
political parties for power and plumber,
while grievous wrongs have been inflicted
upon the suffering people. We charge
that the controlling influence dominating
both these parties has permitted the exist
| ing dreadful conditions to develop without
gefious effort to prevent or restrain them.
| Neither do they now promise US any SUBJ
! stantial reform. They have agreed togeth-
er to ignore in the coming campaign every
| issue but one. They propose to drown out
| the cries of the plundered people with the
uprosr of a sham battle over the tariff, so
that capitalists, corporations, national
banks, rings, trusts, watered stock, de-
| monetization of silver and the oppression
| of the usurers may all be lost sight of.
They propose to sacrifice our homes, lives
and children on the altar of mammon; to
destroy the multitude in order to secure
corruption funds from milhonaires.
| Assembled on the anniversary of the
! birthday of the nation and filed with the
| spirit of the grand general-in-chief who es-
| tablished our independence, we seek to re-
store the government OF the republic to the
hands OF 1.-THE plain people" with whose
class it originated.
We assert our purposes To- be Identical