The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-12-30
THE FIELD IS OURS.

THE FIELD IS OURS.
An Able and Enthusiastic Address bv Cen.
eral Weaver.
Gen. Weaver has sent the following
able and important letter to Chairman
Taubeneck Of the Peoples party. it
being really an address to the Amer
lean people.
Dies MONIES. Ia. Nov 16 1892.
Hon. H. E. Taubeneck, Chairman National
Committee Peoples Party
DEAR SIR:-I wish by this method
to briefly address through you. the
friends of reform throughout the
union. Unaided by money our grand
young party has made an enviable
record and achieved surprising sue
cess at the polls We are but little
behind the Republican party in the
number of states carried. As re-
suit of the late election we will
doubtless hold the balance of power
in the senate of the United States
have doubled the number Of our ad.
herents in the house of representa-
tives secured control of a number of
state governments hold the balance of
power in majority of the states
in the union and have succeeded in
arousing spirit of political indepen-
dence among the people of the North
west which cannot be disregarded in
the future. Not being formed on
sectional lines. our party. in single
campaign. has gained large and in
tiuential following in the South. This
gives promise of good government in
that section of the union-a thing the
Republican party has failed 10 do af-
ter thirty years of almost uninter-
rupted rule-and gives promise. too,
of correcting wrongs which may ex-
ist through the people of the respec-
tive states. instead of attempting to
do so by influences from without.
We have awakened fraternal feelings
in all 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
other. elected an ex- confederate SOL
der of the Peoples party to repre-
sent the state at large in congress.
The country is to be congratulated
upon the fact that the leaders of one
of the heretofore great parties have
been abandoned and overthrow by
the people. and their organization
we'll nigh annihilated. This leaves
the former adherents of the party
free to align themselves with the
great antimonopoly and Industrial
movement The accession of the
other party to power is the result of
violent reaction. and not / am sure
of deliberate Judgment of the Ameri-
can people. The national leaders of
the triumphant party are without any
welldefned policy. except that of
contemptuous disregard 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 re-
lating to land money aud transporta-
ton. and will not attempt to solve
either. In fact the whole force of
the new regime will be exerted to
prevent reform in these important
matters The urgent demand of the
people for the free coinage of silver
is to be disdainfully ignored and
new obstacles will doubtless be in
terposed to further restrict the uso of
the white metal. In contempt of the
doctrine of Andrew jackson, European
aristocrats are to be permitted to
dictate our financial policy.
One of the most valuable results of
the late civil war-that Of uniform
legal tender currency issued by the
g0vernment-is to be sacrificed and
abandoned. and serious attempt will
be made to force the people to return
to the fraudulent system ofstate bank
issues which existed prior to the war
and which periodically swindled the
industrial classes of the fruits of their
toll This is to be sprung upon the
people by a sudden stroke of policy
by leaders who carefully kept their
motives concealed from the public.
The crime is to be enacted into law
between elections and before the PEG.
pie can have time to pass upon
the question by the selection
of representatives chosen for the
purpose. That this is the deliberate
plan is shown by the clause in the
Democratic platform which calls for
the repeal OF the law imposing tax
upon the circulation of state banks.
1t is confirmed by the fact that Mr.
Coe chairman of the executive com
mittee OF the American Bankers as
ISOLATION. together with large num-
Der of New York bankers publicly
gave in their support to the Demo
cratic ticket only few days before
the election. The situation gives ad.
ditional Importance to the great ques-
ton which IL few have comprehended
for score of years namely: Shall
the currency of the country be a legal
tender issued and its volume controlled
by the government or shall it be non
legal tender issued and controlled
by banking corporations. The issues
pressing for solution are simply ire.
mendous and the situation porten.
tous. Our party has not made it's
advent too soon. Its mission is to
restore to our government its original
and only legitimate function-which
has been we'll nigh lost by non user
that of securing to all OF its citizens
the weak as we'll as tho mighty the
unmo!ested enjoyment of their in