The morning call., 1892-08-10
THEIR sENTIMENTs.


The Candidate Addresses a Mass Meeting
In This City.
mass-meeting was held in the evening
at the Mechanics Pavilion, when the visit
ing party occupied the stage The large
hall was three parts filed with men and
women. a band had been engaged and
discoursed selections while the audience
was arriving.
Before opening the meeting copies of
General Weaver's book. "a Call for Ac-
tion." were offered for sale to help defray
the expenses If the campaign.
General Weaver arrived about 80 o'clock
amid cheering Thomas W Gator intro
duced him in few words. being interrupted
by the audience crowdng up toward the
stage. Incidentally he inveighed again ST
some abuses of the day.
THE GENERALS SPEECH
General Weaver started out with Joke.
stating that ii his meetings continued to in
crease IN enthusiasm the cause would have
to be abandoned and made unanimous. The
meetings had commenced ON July q. and
since then great success had attended the
party. lie compared the movement to that
which had preeede1 the election of Abra-
ham Lincoln. Indeed, it was the logical
conclusion of that first battle of labor and
Its success was assured.
He would address all present as laborers.
labor being the basis of every ones wealth.
AAt Vuhtta taAs HSutts Vi 1NOuldS 6. S1er-
man 10 prove that $4,000 individuals in the
United States owned half the wealth of the
country. Yet this was not crusade against
wealth. He himself liked TO associate with
well-to-do men and wished with the Dutch
man that "ail men were rich, because il
would be so much better for the poor" He
drew humorous comparisons between Van
derbilt and prehistoric man as accumula-
tors Of wealth.
He recommended all opposers Of the
movement to get out of The .wav or il
would run over them" The Farmers
Alliance. trades unions and Knights of
Labor agreed that the present condition of
society was unhealthy. The party was
founded on the tights of man referred to in
the constitution. The right to build up
made right 10 tear down.
PARTY PRINCIPLES.
Changes in present parties simply meant
a change OF postmasters. A rickety yehieie
was not benefited by a change ot drivers.
San Francisco was essentially commercial
and Congress should regulate the three
agents OF c0mmerce-money, tran sportatfnn
and means of transmission of intelligence.
None of these were regulated here as they
would be under the government of the
Peoples party candidate.
Bankers could get the peoples money at
per cent, and people had to borrow their
own money from the ban kers at 10 per cent
paid in advance. Congress can and will
lend direct to the people at per cent. The
people can give their land as security. His
party wished TO put more money in circuia-
ton. at the close of the war there was
$50 per capita In circulation, and now there
is not half that.
The first step would be putting In eircula-
ton solid silver currency Tcheering l. and
the possible result Of Europe dumping"
her silver here IL silver were raised to par
ity with gold need not excite any alarm.
Domestic legislation is a great want.
Wall street regulates values of currency
instead OF Congress. His party is for the
free coinage OF silver.
After treating of the transportation prob
lem and Geographic facilities, the speaker
made an urgent appeal for votes, eloquently
insisting upon the winning aspect OF the
party he represented.
The general was followed by Mrs. Mary
r. Lease of Wichita, Kans, the woman
orator of the party. She reeted the sue
cesses of the Farmers Alliance in Kansas
and predicted similar success for this
coast. Instead Of the tariff her party raj
lied around the issues of land, money and
Transportation. The land had been given
to railroad corporations and syndicates in
stead OF TO the people; money had been
given to the capitalists instead of to the
people, and the means of communication
had gone the same way.
Mr.. T. Z. Burman was introduced as the
party candidate for Congress, and the meet
Ing closed with cheers and the falling of
silver dollars on the stage, thrown in the
direction OF Mrs. Lease at That lady's in
vitatfon.