Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-10-05

Convention at Omaha
Following Is the correct platform a.
adopted by the Omaha convention:
PREAMBLE.
Assembled upon the lleth anniversary o.
the declaration of independence the peoples
party OF America IN their first nationA
convention invoking upon their action the
blessing Of Almighty God, puts forth In the
name and on behalf OF the people of this coun'
Try the following preamble and declaration OF
principles:
The conditions which surround US best justify
our cooperation; we meet In the midst of q ma
zion brought To- the verge Of moral, political and
material ruin. Corruption dominates the bal
lot box, the legislatures the congress, and
touches even the ermine Of the bench The
people are denoraliZed; most OF the states have
been compelled to isolate the voters 81 the
polling places to prevent universal Init mi
dalton or bribery. The newspapers are largely
subsidized or muZZled; public opinion ST.
fenced: business prostrated our homes GOV.
cred with mortgages; labor impoverished, and
the land concentrated In the hands Of capital.
lists The urban workmen denied the right
OF organization for self-protection; imported
pauperized labor beats down their wages q
hireling standing army, unrecogniZed by our
laws, IS Cs ablished TO shoot them down and
they VIII rapidly degenerate into European
conditions. The fruits Of the toll of mil lions
are boldly stolen TO build up colossal fortunes
unprecedented In the history Of mankind and
the possessors Of these In turn despise the re-
public and endanger liberty. From tho
same prolific womb of governmental in
justice We breed the two great classes
tramps and millonaires The national power
20 create money is appropriat ted TO enrich bond
holders vast public debt payable in legal ten
der currency has been funded into gold bearing
bonds, thereby adding millions TO the burdens
Of the people.
coin since the dawn Of history, has
been demOnetized to add 70 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
10 fatten usurers, bankrupt enterprise and en-
slave industry. A vast conspiracy against man
kind has been organized on two continents and is
rapidly taking possession OF the world II not
met and overthrown at once II forebodes terri
BILE social CONFUSION, the destruction of civiliza-
ton, or the establishment Of an absolute des-
potisrn
We have witnessed for more than q quarter
OF a century the struggles OF the two great
political parties for power and plumber. while
grtevous wrongs have been inflicted upon q suf-
1er1ng people We charge that the controlling
influences dominating both these parties have
permitted the existing dreadful conditions TO
develop without serious efforts to prevent or re-
strain therL Neither do they now prom
tse "a any substantial reform They have
agreed together TO ignore, in the coming
campaign, every issue but one. They propose
todrown the outcries of q plundered people with
the uproar OF a sham battle over the tarin, 30
that capitalists, corporations, national banks,
rings, trusts, watored stock, decentralization
OF silver and the expressions Of the usurers may
oil DO lost sight OF They proposed TO sacrifice
our homes lives and children on the altar Of
mammon; 70 destroy the multitude in order TO
secure corruption funds from the millionaires
Assembled on the anniversary Of the birth
day OF the nation and filed with the spirit OF
the grand generation who established our indie
pendence we seek our independence We seek
70 restore the government OF the republic 70
tne hands OF the plaiL people" with whose
class It originated.
We assert our purposes 70 be Identical
with the purposes OF the national constf-
sutton; ITO form more perfect union
establish justice, insure domestic tranquility
provide for the common defense, promote the
general welfare and secure the blessings Of
liberty for ourselves and our posterity"
We declare that this republic can only en-
6ure as . free government while built upon
the love Of the whole people for each other and
Tor the nation; that It cannot be pinned to-
gether 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 as we are In name one united
brotherhood of freemen.
Our country finds itself confronted by oondi-
lions for which there is no precedent in
the history OF the world Our annual
agricultural productions amount 70 billions of
dollars in value which must within few weeks
or months be exchanged 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, the formation OF
.eon4hth6s and rings and tho impoVerish-
ment OF the producing class. We pledge
ourselves that II given power, we win labor
20 correct these evils by wise and reasonable
legislation In accordance with the terms of our
platform We believe that the powers OF govern
ment-in other words, OF the people-Rhould b
expanded Gas in the case of the postal service)
rs rapidly and as far as the good sense Of an In
telligent people and the teaching OF experience
shall Justify TO the end that oppression injustice
ana poverty shall eventually cease In the land.
While our sympathies as party Of reform are
naturally upon the side OF every proposition
which will tend to make mon intelligent VIZ =
Gus and temperate, We nevertheless <ta
these questions, important as they -egAro
secondary to the great issues mo- are a.
for solution and upon which not ~ pressing
Vidual prosperity, but the We only our inoi
free institutions depend, |cy existence Of
men to nrst help US to and we ask al
fore we differ as 70 Ioblio to administer be
A a 20 be admir- 40 conditions upon which
forces Of refor -1Stered; believing that the
naver cease e. m this day organised viii
- renedIeI move forward until every Wrona
800 - nnd equal rights and equal prvii
49, >1curely established for al the man and
WI &en Of the country.
THE PLATFORM
we declare, therefore:
First-That the union Of the labor forces Of
the United States this day consummated shall
be permanent and perpetual. May its spirit
enter into all hearts for the salvation Of the
republic and the uplifting Of mankind
Second-Wealth belongs TO him who creates
Il and every dollar taken from industry with
not work neither shall he eat" The interests
of rural and civic labor are the same; their emf
mics are identical
Third-We believe that the time has come
when the railroad CORPORATIONS must either
own the people or the people must own the rail
roads-and should the government enter
upon the work Of owning and managing any
or oil railroads, we should favor an amend
ment TO the constitution by which all person.
engaged In the government service shall b,
placed under OWL service regulation OF the
most rigid character, so as to prevent the in
crease of the power OF the national administra
ton by the use OF such additional government
employees
We demand that national currency, safe
sound and flexible, issued by the general gov
eminent only, a full legal tender for all debts
public and private, and that without the use o
banking corpora lions, q Just, equitable an
enicient means of distribution direct to tn
people, at a tax not to exceed two per cent pc
annum, be proviped, as set forth in the sui
treasury plan OF the Farmers Alliance or som
better system; also by payments in, discharg
OF its obligations for public improvements
We demand free and unlimited coinage
silver and gold at the present legal ratio of
toll
We demand that the amount of circulattn
medium be speedily increased to not less tia
ESQ per capita.
we demand graduated income tax.
We believe that the money of the eountE
should be kept as much as possible in n
hands OF the people, and hence we demand th'
All state aud national revenue shall be limite
tothe necessary expenses OF tho governmei
economically and honestly administered
We demand that postal savings banks
established by the governments for the safe
posft Of the earnings OF the people and
facilitate exchange.
transportation being \ means OF excaan
aud public necessity, the government sho'
own and operate The railroads in the interest
the people
The telegraph and telephone, like the post
nee system, being necessity for transmissl
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